The Council of the Realm, or simply The Council (Swedish: Riksrådet or Swedish: Rådet: sometimes in Latin: Senatus Regni Sueciae), was a cabinet of medieval...
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A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The term "privy"...
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authority, usually in the form of approving orders, on the advice of the country's privy council or executive council. In nations where the reigning monarch...
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out in the 1974 Instrument of Government. But it traces its history back to the Middle Ages when the Privy Council of Sweden was formed in the 12th century...
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Henrik Horn (category Swedish nobility)
was a Swedish nobleman (friherre), admiral and member of the Privy Council of Sweden. Henrik Horn was born at Stade in the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen...
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(1439-1494), a member of the Bonde family and cousin of King Karl VIII. Svante became a member of the Privy Council of Sweden no later than 1482, but...
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Torkel Knutsson (category 13th-century Swedish nobility)
Lord High Constable of Sweden, member of the Privy Council of Sweden (Riksråd), and virtual ruler of Sweden during the early reign of King Birger Magnusson...
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Jacob De la Gardie (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire, and a Marshal from 1620 onward. He was Privy Councilor from 1613 onward, Governor of Swedish Estonia in 1619–1622...
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Royal Councils in Scandinavian countries Riksrådet, the Privy Council of Sweden Reichstag (disambiguation), the directly elected body or Lower House of parliaments...
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Arvid Horn (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
1742) was a Swedish general, diplomat and politician, a member of the noble Horn family. He served twice as president of the privy council chancellery...
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Axel Oxenstierna (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
Oxenstierna (Swedish: [ˈǎksɛl ˈʊ̂ksɛnˌɧæːɳa] ; 1583–1654) was a Swedish statesman and Count of Södermöre. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609...
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Klaus Fleming (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
Fleming became a member of the Privy Council, in 1571 he was made Lord High Admiral and in 1590 Lord High Constable. As the Governor of Finland and Estonia...
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Erik Sparre (redirect from Erik Sparre of Rossvik)
Sparre of Rossvik; 13 July 1550 – 20 March 1600) was a Swedish noble, statesman, diplomat, and political theorist who served as Privy Councilor from 1575...
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Karl Knutsson (redirect from Charles VIII (of Sweden))
of Sweden, as well as from Ingegerd Knutsdotter, a daughter of Canute IV of Denmark and Adela of Flanders. In 1434, Karl became a member of the Privy...
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Nils Jönsson (Oxenstierna) (category Regents of Sweden)
Oxenstierna (1390s–1450s) from January to June 1448. He was a member of the Privy Council of Sweden in 1432, Castellan (hövitsman) at Borgholm Castle in 1436, Stäket...
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office was out of use. The office holder was a member of the Privy Council. From 1634, the Lord High Chancellor was one of five Great Officers of the Realm...
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Sweden in the hands of the regency council and returned to Poland. Sweden was to be ruled jointly by the Privy Council of Sweden and Sigismund's uncle...
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Anders Torstenson (politician) (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
Stockholm) was a Swedish Privy Councilor, Governor-General and Count. His father, Lennart Torstensson, was a military officer with the rank of Fältmarskalk...
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Åke Henriksson Tott (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
was appointed Privy Councilor in 1630, and Field Marshal in 1631. In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), he commanded troops at the Battle of Grubin, in 1627...
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Gustaf Adolf Lewenhaupt (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
(aka Löwenhaupt; 1619–1656) was a Swedish soldier and statesman. He was appointed Major General in 1645, Privy Councilor in 1650, General in 1651, Field...
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Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
was a Swedish soldier and politician, being appointed Privy Councilor in 1612, Field Marshal in 1615, Lord High Treasurer in 1615, and Governor of Riga...
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1657) was a Swedish nobleman of Finnish descent, military officer, and Governor-General. He was appointed member of the Royal Council in 1625, Field...
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Bengt Jönsson (Oxenstierna) (redirect from Bengt and Nils Oxenstierna of Sweden)
(Oxenstierna). Member of the Privy Council of Sweden from 1435, and magistrate of Uppland in 1439. Dubbed as knight by King Christopher of Bavaria following...
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Carl Gyllenhielm (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
Swedish soldier and politician. He was made a baron (friherre) in 1615, appointed Field Marshal in 1616, Privy Councilor in 1617, Governor General of...
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Officers of the Realm (Swedish: de högre riksämbetsmännen) were the five leading members of the Swedish Privy Council from the later parts of the 16th...
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Union Union between Sweden and Norway Politics of Sweden Privy Council of Sweden Riksdag of the Estates Sami history "History of Sweden – more than Vikings...
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knighthood, Kunglig Majestäts Orden. History of Sweden Oath of Allegiance (Sweden) Privy Council of Sweden Royal Order of the Seraphim Conseil du Roi (historical...
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Lars Kagg (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
was a Swedish count and military officer. He was a political ally of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, a member of the Privy Council of Sweden and Field...
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Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
time of the king's death, but a summons from his friend, now duke regent, speedily recalled him, and in 1793 he was made a member of the Privy Council and...
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Gustav Evertsson Horn (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
Horn of Marienburg (28 May 1614 – 27 February 1666) was a Finnish-Swedish military man and politician. He was a member of the Privy Council of Sweden and...
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