Bengt Gabrielsson, Count Oxenstierna

Bengt Gabrielsson, Count Oxenstierna (born July 16, 1623, Morby Castle, Sweden—died July 12, 1702, Stockholm) was a Swedish statesman who, as the principal foreign policy adviser of King Charles XI, established a virtually neutral foreign policy for Sweden, breaking the existing alliance with France and forming ties with the Netherlands, England, and the Holy Roman Empire. Bengt Oxenstierna, a relative of Axel Oxenstierna, began his career as a diplomat at the Congresses of Osnabrück and...