Carl Gustaf Wrangel


Carl Gustaf Wrangel
Portrait by Matthäus Merian the Younger (1662)
Born23 December 1613
Uppsala, Sweden
Died5 July 1676 (aged 62)
Spyker on Rügen, Swedish Pomerania
Buried
Skokloster, Sweden
AllegianceSweden
RankField Marshal, Lord High Admiral, Lord High Constable
CommandsCommander-in-chief of the Swedish army in Germany
Battles / warsThirty Years War Torstenson War War for Bremen
Second Northern War
Scanian War
Other workCount of Salmis, later Sölvesborg
Freiherr of Lindeberg and Ludenhof
Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania
Chancellor of the University of Greifswald
Supreme Judge in the Uppland
Signature
Engraving of Carl Gustaf Wrangel

Fältmarskalk Carl Gustaf Wrangel (also Carl Gustav von Wrangel; 23 December 1613 – 5 July 1676)[1] was a Swedish statesman and military commander who commanded the Swedish forces in the Thirty Years' War, as well as the Torstenson, Bremen, Second Northern and Scanian Wars.

A Baltic German, he held the ranks of a Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish forces in Germany (1646–1648), and Lord High Admiral of Sweden (from 1657). Wrangel was Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania (1648–1652 and 1656–1676) and, from 1664, Lord High Constable of Sweden and a member of the Privy Council. He held the title of a Count of Salmis until 1665, when he became Count of Sölvesborg. By 1673, Wrangel's title was "Count of Sölvesborg, Freiherr of Lindeberg and Ludenhof, Lord of Skokloster, Bremervörde, Wrangelsburg, Spyker, Rappin, Ekebyhov, Gripenberg and Rostorp".[2][nb 1]

From 1658, Wrangel was Supreme judge in Uppland, and in 1660, he became Chancellor of the University of Greifswald. He held several estates, primarily in the Dominions of Sweden, where he constructed representative mansions: Wrangelsburg, in Pomerania, still bears his name.

Wrangel is part of the Wrangel family and was a close friend of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden.

  1. ^ Chisholm (1911), p. 838.
  2. ^ Asmus (2003), p.195


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