Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Gustaf Wrangel

Field Marshal of Sweden

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1613

Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1676

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Fältmarskalk Carl Gustaf Wrangel (also Carl Gustav Wrangel; 23 December 1613 – 5 July 1676) was a Swedish statesman and military commander who commanded the Swedish forces in the Thirty Years', 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 (since 1657).
Wrangel was governor-general of Swedish Pomerania (1648–1652 and 1656–1676) and since 1664, Lord High Constable of Sweden and a member of the Privy Council.
He held the title of a Count of Salmis until 1665, thereafter he was 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".From 1658, Wrangel was supreme judge in Uppland, and from 1660, chancellor of the University of Greifswald.
He held several estates, primarily in the Swedish dominions, where he constructed representative mansions - Wrangelsburg in Pomerania bears his name until today.
Wrangel was a close friend of Charles X Gustav of Sweden.



Description	Swiss-German portrait painter and engraver son of Matthäus Merian the Elder
Date of birth/death	March 1621	15 February 1687
Location of birth/death	Basel	Frankfurt
Work location	Frankfurt
Authority control	: Q324410 VIAF: 98612721 ISNI: 0000 0001 1031 6410 ULAN: 500019793 LCCN: n88623588 NLA: 35115224 WorldCat