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    Axel Oxenstierna palace is a Mannerist architecture style building situated in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by the architect Jean de la...
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    Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (Swedish: [ˈǎksɛl ˈʊ̂ksɛnˌɧæːɳa] ; 1583–1654) was a Swedish statesman and Count of Södermöre. He became a member of the Swedish...
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    plans for the city area west of the palace with large stairs in false perspective where the Axel Oxenstierna palace, among other buildings, are and joining...
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    Gabrielsson Oxenstierna and Barbro Axelsdotter Bielke. As such he was brother of, among others, Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. Oxenstierna began studying...
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    Hans Axel von Fersen (Swedish: [hɑːns ˈǎksɛl fɔn ˈfæ̌ʂːɛn]; 4 September 1755 – 20 June 1810), known as Axel de Fersen in France, was a Swedish count, Marshal...
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    century. Together with the Royal Palace, the Axel Oxenstierna palace, Slottsbacken and its obelisk, and the Tessin Palace, it is part of a coherent ensemble...
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    the following buildings: Ryning Palace, Stockholm (1640-1644) Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm Axel Oxenstierna palace, Stockholm Ekolsund Castle Riddarhuset...
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    Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. Both she and her husband's family were extremely wealthy. Maria Sofia resided in Tyresö Palace, from where she managed...
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    gardens were located here. In 1653, the Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654) started to build his palace still present on the south-western corner of the...
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    sovereign. Consequently, genealogy flourished. The Lord High Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna, was the architect of the Instrument of Government of 1634, which laid...
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    day, Gustav Adolf broke camp and left. On 3 November, Maria wrote to Axel Oxenstierna: "without H.R.M.'s presence, I am worth nothing, not even my life."...
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    Swedish). 1885. Retrieved 13 July 2009. "Oxenstierna Family Website - Hedvig Ebba de la Gardie". oxenstierna.org (in Swedish and English). Retrieved 13...
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    from his father when he ascended to the throne. From 1612, when Count Axel Oxenstierna was appointed Lord High Chancellor, which he remained until Gustavus...
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    preacher M. Stephano Gallio at Stockholm Palace. The witnesses at his baptism were... Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, Privy Councillor, Admiral and Governor...
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    architect Simon de la Vallée. He worked for the Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna before he travelled for further studies to Germany, Italy, France and...
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    he had contacts which were deemed valuable to Sweden, though Count Axel Oxenstierna opposed the marriage. The marriage took place on 11 June 1615 in Stockholm...
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    and she also sought the help of Axel Oxenstierna to reinstate him in favor, though she privately blamed the Oxenstierna party for having caused the fall...
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    Tidö was built by the influential statesman and Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna in 1625–1645. The castle was built around a rectangular courtyard with...
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    facto head of government; the most prominent of these examples is Axel Oxenstierna, who played a pivotal role in the formation of the Swedish Empire....
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    it was integrated into Stockholm County. The governors reside in Tessin Palace. The governor is often appointed for a six-year mandate. It can be extended...
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    portraits of past ministers for foreign affairs and a large portrait of Axel Oxenstierna. Stora salongen ("Great Salon") or Blå salongen ("Blue Salon") is a...
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    Landed Estate of Fiholm was commissioned by the Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna in 1640 to the plans of the French architect Simon de Vallée. The two...
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    responsible for maintaining relations with foreign powers and especially Axel Oxenstierna possessed massive influence during his tenure as Chancellor (1612–1654)...
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    Rikskanslern Axel Oxenstiernas skrifter och brefvexling, second series vol. 9 (Stockholm 1898), pp.934-939. Two letters, both James King to Oxenstierna and the...
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    where eventually several new palaces would be built, and for the ridges surrounding the city, where Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna had the medieval slum replaced...
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    pro-French and pro-Polish attitudes often put him at odds with Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who led Sweden's war effort in the Thirty Years' War after the death...
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    early 17th-century Swedish state was the long-dominant Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who had spent his own student days in German universities and who...
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    Djursholm and has become a peninsula due to land raising. Nils Jönsson (Oxenstierna) bought Djursholm in 1418 and had the first castle built on Gamla Djursholm...
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    Royal Medal for his painting of King Charles X at the death bed of Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654), and received a three-year stipend that enabled him to...
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    the royal palace Tre kronor in 1697, the royal family took refuge in her home. Magdalena Stenbock's marriage with Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna produced...
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