Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna

Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa, 1st Count of Korsholma and Vaasa (18 March 1586 – 12 December 1656) was a Swedish statesman, jurist and diplomat.

Oxenstierna died in 1656 at Edsberg Manor in present-day Sollentuna and was buried in Fasterna Church.

Family Oxenstierna married Anna Gustafsdotter Banér (1585–1656), a daughter of Gustaf Banér, in Stockholm on 7 October 1610. With the marriage, Anna Banér began a long period of childbearing: on 15 September 1612, the couple's first child, Sigrid, was born in Uusimaa, Finland, followed by ten more children in quick succession between 1613 and 1626, including Gabriel, Bengt and Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna. All but two of their children survived to adulthood.

He was an older half-brother of Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna and a cousin of Axel and Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna.

Oxenstierna founded the comital af Korsholm and Wasa branch of the Oxenstierna family, the only male-line branch still in existence today.

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