Carl Gustaf Wrangel Carl Gustaf Wrangel ( also Carl Gustav Wrangel ; 23 December 1613 – 5 July 1676 ) was a high - ranking Swedish noble , statesman and military commander in the Thirty Years ' , Torstenson , Bremen , Second Northern and Scanian War s . 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 gouvernor - 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 Salmi s 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 . Biography . Family . Carl Gustav Wrangel was born near Uppsala to baroness Margareta Grip av Vinäs and Herman Wrangel on 23 December 1613 . By his paternal descend he was a member of the Wrangel family of Baltic German origin , branches of which settled in Sweden , Russia and Germany . Wrangel married Anna Margareta von Haugwitz ( died 20 March 1673 ) , who bore him eleven children , six of whom died very young . The five children who reached adulthood were Under Christina . At the age of twenty , Carl Gustaf Wrangel distinguished himself as a cavalry captain in the Thirty Years ' War . Three years later he was colonel , and in 1638 major - general , still serving in Germany . In 1644 , during the Torstenson War , he commanded a fleet at sea , which defeated the Danes at Fehmarn on 23 October . In 1646 he returned to Germany as a Field Marshal and succeeded Lennart Torstenson as commander - in - chief of the Swedish army in Germany . Under Wrangel and Turenne the allied Swedish and French armies marched and fought in Bavaria and Württemberg . After the Thirty Years ' War had come to an end in 1648 , he was made governor - general of Swedish Pomerania . Queen Christina of Sweden created him count of Salmi s in Kexholms län ( Salmi and Suistamo pogosta , Käkisalmi province ) in northern Karelia , Finland ; and afterwards augmented his lands with barony of Lindeberg in Halland . Under Charles X Gustav . Already before Christina ' s abdication , Wrangel became a close friend and trusted advisor of her successor , Charles X Gustav of Sweden . Wrangel and Charles X Gustav had first met two weeks before the Battle of Leipzig ( 1642 ) , and when Wrangel ' s oldest daughter was born during the siege , Charles X Gustav became her godparent . Charles X Gustav created Wrangel freiherr of Ludenhof , and Lord High Admiral on 11 December 1657 - a special favour for Charles X Gustav left most of Sweden ' s highest offices vacant . When the Second Northern War broke out in 1655 , Wrangel commanded a fleet , but in 1656 he was serving on land again and commanding , along with the " Great Elector " Frederick William I of Brandenburg , in the three days Battle of Warsaw ( 1656 ) . In 1657 he invaded Jutland and in 1658 passed over the ice into the islands and took Kronborg . When Charles X Gustav died at the end of the war , Wrangel participated in organizing the obsequies and composed the melody to a lament . Also in 1660 , Wrangel became chancellor of the University of Greifswald , after he had been made supreme judge in the Uppland province two years earlier . Under Charles XI . In 1664 he was appointed Lord High Constable of the realm , and as such he was a member of the Privy Council during the minority of Charles XI of Sweden . During the Wars for Bremen , he tried to win the city of Bremen for the Swedish crown , but was not successful : On November , 15th , 1666 he was forced to make peace , and concluded the " Peace of Habenhausen " . During the Scanian War , Wrangel was commanding ineffectively owing to his broken health , and was recalled after his stepbrother Baron Waldemar Wrangel ( 1647 – 1676 ) had been defeated at Fehrbellin . Illness and death . The hardships and injuries Wrangel suffered during his multiple campaigns , combined with unhealthy eating habits , led to Wrangel suffering from several acute and chronic illnesses for most of his life , most notably gout and gallstone . He was treated at several health resorts , including Spa in August 1651 , Langenschwalbach in July 1662 and Pyrmont in the summer of 1668 , yet without ever completely recovering . In 1674 , he broke down " like dead " from two strikes of hypervolemia , and his chronic diseases made it nearly impossible for him to fulfill the tasks of commanding the Swedish forces in the Scanian War . Shortly afterwards , on 25 June ( OS ) or 5 July ( NS ) 1676 , Wrangel died in his Spyker Castle on Rügen , Swedish Pomerania ( also spelled Spycker , now part of the Glowe municipality ) . His body was transferred to Stralsund and remained there throughout the siege of 1678 . After the battle , Stralsund fell in Danish and Brandenburgian hands , but the Danish king and the Brandenburgian elector upon requests of Wrangel ' s heirs permitted the body to be transferred to Stockholm , which happened in July 1680 . On 1 December 1680 , he was buried in the Wrangel family ' s crypt in Skokloster . His preserved written legacy is archived in the Gamla Riksarkivet ( Great Imperial Archive ) , Stockholm . Landowner and constructor . In Swedish Pomerania , Wrangel advanced to the greatest landowner . There , he held the domains of Spyker ( Rügen ) with Baldereck , Cape Arkona , Klein Jasmund ( now part of Dubnitz , Sassnitz ) , Koosdorf , Polkvitz , Ruschvitz , Streu and Wostevitz , the former property of the Roskilde bishop centered on Ralswiek ( Rügen ) , Wrangelsburg with Krebsow , Spandowerhagen and Zarnitz , Groß Ernsthof , Pritzier with Buddenhagen , Giesekenhagen , Hohendorf , Hohensee , Katzow , Netzeband and Zarnow , Nonnendorf with Latzow , Lubmin and Vierow , Mölschow ( Usedom ) with Bannemin , Mahlzow , Sauzin , Zecherin and Ziemitz , Brüssow and Krummin ( Usedom ) , and also the islands Greifswalder Oie and Ruden . Wrangel ' s Amt Saatzig in Farther Pomerania was exchanged for the beforementioned Klein Jasmund , Polkvitz , Rushvitz and Wostevitz in 1653 , when Farther Pomerania fell to Brandenburg . In Swedish Livonia , Wrangel held the domains of Ödenpäh , Rappin and Wrangelshof , with Ödenpäh and Wrangelshof exchanged for Pomeranian domains in 1653 . Also in Livonia , he held Luua ( then Ludenhof or Luhde castle in Walk ( Valga ) county ) . In Scania he held Lillö . Near Stockholm , he held Ekebyhov , and in Karelia , he held Salmi s county , which he exchanged for Sölvesborg county in Blekinge in 1665 . In Finland , he held property in Bjärnå , as well as in Skokloster in Uppland , and Rostorp and Säby in Småland . In Halland , Wrangel held the county of Lindeberg . In Bremen - Verden , he held Amt Bremervörde . Wrangel built the Gripenberg palace in Säby , and palaces in Bremervörde , Skokloster , Spyker , Stralsund , Wrangelsburg . Wrangelsburg bears his name , it was renamed by him from " " Vorwerk " " on 19 September 1653 . His favourite , and grandest , castle was Skokloster Castle in Uppland which he created substantial collections of art and expensive weapons and exotic items .