Lars Kagg (1 May 1595 – 19 November 1661) was a
Swedish count and military officer. He was a political ally of King
, a member of the Privy Council of Sweden and Field Marshal during the
Thirty Years' War
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.
Kagg was born at the Kiellstorp estate in
Örslösa parish in
Skaraborg, now
Västra Götaland County
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The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of S ...
. He was the son of Chamberlain Nils Mathisson Kagg. In 1609, at the age of fourteen, he was taken to the court of King
Charles IX of Sweden, where he formed a lifelong relationship with Crown Prince Gustav Adolph.
In 1626, he became deputy governor of
Narva and
Ivangorod in
Swedish Ingria. In 1628, he became colonel of in the
Jönköping
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The city is the seat o ...
infantry regiment. In 1631, he became commander in
Brandenburg an der Havel
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With a population of 72,040 (as of 2020), it is located on the banks of the ...
and
Spandau
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. In 1632, he became governor of the city of
Magdeburg
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Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...
. He was made
Lord High Constable of Sweden in 1660.
In 1647, Kagg acquired
Kaggeholms gård, an estate on the island of
Helgö situated in
Lake Mälaren, today the site of Kaggeholm Castle (''Kaggeholms slott'').
References
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''Kaggeholms slott''
1595 births
1661 deaths
Field marshals of Sweden
17th-century Swedish nobility
Members of the Privy Council of Sweden
17th-century Swedish politicians
17th-century Swedish military personnel
People from Lidköping Municipality
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