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Axel, Count Oxenstierna: Quick Facts

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Born June 16, 1583 • Uppsala • Sweden
Died August 28, 1654 (aged 71) • Stockholm • Sweden
Title / Office chancellor (1612-1654), Sweden
Role In Thirty Years’ War

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Lennart Torstenson, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden.
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Hans Axel von Fersen, portrait by an unknown artist; in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
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