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Jacob De la Gardie

Count Jacob De la Gardie
Jacob De la Gardie 1606.jpg
Jacob De la Gardie in 1606
Lord High Constable of Sweden
In office
1620–1652
Preceded by Axel Nilsson Ryning
Succeeded by Gustaf Horn
Governor of Swedish Estonia
In office
1619–1622
Preceded by Anders Eriksson Hästehufvud
Succeeded by Per Gustafsson Banér
1st Governor-General of Swedish Livonia
In office
1622–1628
Succeeded by Johan Skytte
Personal details
Born (1583-06-20)20 June 1583
Reval (Tallinn), Swedish Estonia
Died 22 August 1652(1652-08-22) (aged 69)
, Sweden
Spouse(s) Ebba Brahe
(m. 1618–52; his death)
Children 14, including:
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
Maria Sofia De la Gardie
Axel Julius De la Gardie
Residence Makalös Palace,
Läckö Castle

Field Marshal and Count Jacob Pontusson De la Gardie (Reval, 20 June 1583 – , 22 August 1652) was a and a soldier of the Swedish Empire.

He was appointed Privy Councilor in 1613, Governor of Swedish Estonia between 1619 and 1622, Governor General of Livonia in 1622, and Lord High Constable in 1620. He introduced reforms based on the then novel Dutch military doctrine into the Swedish army. He commanded the Swedish forces in Russia and against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He also served as one of the five regents jointly ruling Sweden during the minority of Queen Christina.

Antoine Marie Jacob De la Gardie was born in Reval (today Tallinn), Estonia (then part of the Swedish Empire), as a son of Pontus De la Gardie and Sofia Johansdotter Gyllenhielm, the illegitimate daughter of king John III of Sweden. His mother died giving birth, and his father perished two years later in Narva. Jacob was raised in the Vääksy (Swedish: Växiö) manor, Kangasala, Finland (then part of Sweden proper) by his grandmother Karin Hansdotter, the mistress of king John III.


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