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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

knighthood, Kunglig Majestäts Orden. History of Sweden Oath of Allegiance (Sweden) Privy Council of Sweden Royal Order of the Seraphim Conseil du Roi (historical...

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...

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...

1600) was a Swedish noble, member of the Privy Council of Sweden. Gustaf Axelsson Banér was born at Djursholm Castle, the son of the Privy Counselor Axel...

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...

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...

after concluding his studies at the Royal Academy of Turku he received a post in the Privy Council Chancery at Stockholm in 1751. Here he met Count Gustaf...

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...

Royal Councils in Scandinavian countries Riksrådet, the Privy Council of Sweden Reichstag (disambiguation), the directly elected body or Lower House of parliaments...

member of the Privy Council of Sweden Johan Banér, Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War, son of Gustaf Banér Per Gustafsson Banér, member of the...

about the Privy Council of Sweden (Riksrådet in Swedish). The relevant information is at the bottom of column 388, Nordisk Familjebok (in Swedish) v t e...

chose to leave Sweden, while others were killed. As a result, the Swedish Privy Council lost old members who were replaced by supporters of Gustav Eriksson...

Swedish soldier and politician. He was made a baron (friherre) in 1615, appointed Field Marshal in 1616, Privy Councilor in 1617, Governor General of...

department of business, but relied heavily on extra-official counsellors of his own choosing rather than upon the Privy Council of Sweden. The effort...

(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...

Stockholm) was a Swedish Privy Councilor, Governor-General and Count. His father, Lennart Torstensson, was a military officer with the rank of Fältmarskalk...