Niels Rosenkrantz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish diplomat
Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1757
Place of Birth: Øyestad, Aust-Agder, Norway
Date of Death: 06-Jan-1824
Profession: diplomat
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Niels Rosenkrantz
- Niels Rosenkrantz (9 September 1757 in Øyestad, Norway - 6 January 1824 in Copenhagen) was a Danish-Norwegian statesman, diplomat and prime minister.
- He was the son of Otto Christian Rosenkrantz and Karen Johanne Rønning.
- After a short time of service in the military, Niels Rosenkrantz began to serve as a diplomat.
- In 1783, he was appointed as the Danish minister in The Hague.
- In 1784, he was assigned as the Danish minister in St.
- Petersburg.
- He became the Danish minister in residence of Warsaw in 1787.
- He served as the Danish Chamberlain and charge d'affaires at the Russian court in 1789.
- In 1795, he served as the Danish ambassador to the Prussian court in Berlin.
- In 1800, he was appointed as an ambassador to the Russian court.
- That same year, he became a knight of the Order of Dannebrog.
- In 1801, he was ordered by Czar Paul I to immediately leave Russia following the Battle of Copenhagen.
- He was re-invited to be the ambassador to the Russian court 1802-04 following Paul I's assassination and the ascension of his successor, Alexander I of Russia.
- In 1808, he served as a messenger between Denmark and Emperor Napoleon.
- He became a peace agent to Sweden in 1809.
- In 1810, he began to work with the messengers to Bonaparte again.
- That same year he was appointed as the head Foreign Minister.
- In 1811, he became a Knight of the Order of the Elephant. Niels Rosenkrantz was born into a poor family.
- However, he became a fairly prosperous landowner when his distant relative Prime Minister Frederik Christian Rosenkrantz designated him as his sole heir.
- He then came into the estates at Ryegaard, Egholm, Krabbesholm and Trudsholm in North Zealand, and Barritskov in Jutland.
- In 1791, he married Princess Varvara Alexandrovna Vyazemskaya (1774-1849), the youngest daughter of Prince Alexander Vyzemsky, Catherine II's Attorney General.
- He is buried in Rye churchyard near his manor Ryegård west of Roskilde.
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