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See also:GYLLENSTJERNA, JOHAN , See also:CoUNT (1635–168o), See also:Swedish statesman, completed his studies at See also:Upsala and then visited most of the See also:European states and laid the See also:foundations of that deep insight into See also:international politics which afterwards distinguished him. On his return See also:home he met See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles X. in the Danish islands and was in See also:close attendance upon him till the monarch's See also:death in .66o. He began his See also:political career at the See also:diet which assembled in the autumn of the same See also:year. An aristocrat by See also:birth and inclination, he was nevertheless a true patriot and demanded the greatest sacrifices from his own See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order in the See also:national interests. He was therefore one of those who laboured most zealously for the recovery of the See also:crown lands. In the Upper See also:House he was the spokesman of the gentry against the magnates, whose inordinate privileges he would have curtailed or abolished. His adversaries vainly endeavoured to gain him by favour, for as See also:court-See also:marshal and senator he was still more hostile to the dominant See also:patricians who followed the adventurous policy of See also:Magnus de la Gardie. Thus he opposed the See also:French See also:alliance which de la Gardie carried through in 1672, and consistently advocated See also:economy in domestic and See also:neutrality in See also:foreign affairs. On the outbreak of the See also:war in 1675 he was the
most loyal and energetic supporter of the See also:young Charles XI., were training for public contests, to conduct the See also:games at the and finally his indispensable counsellor. Indeed, it may be said,
that the political principles which he instilled into the youthful monarch were faithfully followed by Charles during the whole of his reign. In 1699 Gyllenstjerna was appointed the Swedish plenipotentiary at the See also:peace See also:congress of See also:Lund. The alliance which he then concluded with See also:Denmark See also:bound the two See also:northern realms together in a See also:common foreign policy, and he sought besides to facilitate their harmonious co-operation by every means in his See also:power. In 168o, after bringing home Charles XI.'s Danish See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride from- See also:Copenhagen, he was appointed See also:governor-See also:general of Scania (Skane), but expired a few See also:weeks later.
See M. Hojer, Ofversigt of Sveriges yttre politik under dren z676–168o (Upsala, 1875). (R. N.
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