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Oxenstierna, an ancient Swedish noble family, the origin of which can be traced up to the middle of the 14th century, which had vast estates in Södermanland and Uppland, and began to adopt its armorial designation of Oxenstierna ("Ox-forehead", stierna has the double meaning of "star") as a personal name towards the end of the 16th century. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. sometimes referred to under its Latin form Sudermannia, is a historical province or landskap on the south eastern coast of Sweden. Uppland ( is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital Its most notable members include the following:
- Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna, (1390s-1450), regent of Sweden
- Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna, (1390s-1450s)
- Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, (1417-1467)
- Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, (1583–1654), Powerful chancellor of the Realm, during Sweden's Age of Greatness
- Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, (1587–1640)
- Bengt Oxenstierna (1591–1643), Swedish Privy Councillor, Governor-General of Ingria and Swedish Livonia;
- Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna, (1611–1657)
- Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna of Korsholm and Vasa (1623–1702), President of the Royal Swedish Chancellery, Military Governor of Warsaw;
- Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1750–1818), member of the Swedish Academy;
- Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, winner of the Olympic gold medal in modern pentathlon (1932). Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna Regency Jöns Bengtsson (Oxenstierna Regency ( June 16, 1583 &ndash August 28, 1654) Count of Södermöre was a Swedish statesman Count Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna ( June 15 1587 – November 27 1640) Swedish statesman brother of Axel Oxenstierna, Bengt Oxenstierna (1591-1643 was the Swedish Privy Councillor, Governor-General of Ingria and Livonia. A privy council is a body that advises the Head of state of a nation on how to exercise their executive authority, typically but not always in the context of a The term governor general or governor-general refers to a vice-regal representative of a Monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription For the Italian municipality see Ingria Italy. For the Brachiopod Genus, see Ingria (brachiopod. Count Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna (1611-1657 Swedish statesman son of Axel Oxenstierna, completed his studies at Uppsala in 1631 and was sent by his Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna (1623-1702 Swedish statesman was the son of Axel Oxenstierna ’s cousin Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1586-1656 Year 1702 ( MDCCII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna ( July 19, 1750 &mdash July 29, 1818) was a member of the Swedish Academy, Chair No Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa (born August 28, 1899 in Sirishov, Stockholm - died July 18, 1995
King Charles XVI Gustav of Sweden, the current monarch, descends from the Oxenstierna through his maternal grandmother, Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, whose ancestor Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck was son of Countess Frederica of Dohna-Schlobitten, great-great-granddaughter of Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna, 1st Count of Korsholma and Vaasa, himself father of Bengt Gabrielsson the aforementioned and first cousin of Axel and Bengt Gustafssöner, as well as great-great-great-great-grandson of regent Bengt Jönsson the aforementioned. Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein ( Christened as Princess Viktoria Adelheid Helene Luise Marie Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg Dohna is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district Saxony, Germany. Korsholma Castle ( Korsholman linna in Finnish Korsholm slott in Swedish also known as Chrysseborg) was a medieval castle in Vaasa, Finland Vaasa ( Swedish: Vasa) is a city on the west coast of Finland.
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