Matthias Palbitzki

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Matthias Palbitzki (born December 23, 1623 in Stolp , Western Pomerania ; † October 20, 1677 in Julita , Södermanland ) was a Swedish diplomat .

Life

Matthias Palbitzki was probably born in Stolp, where his father Georg Matthias Palbitzki (* around 1570, † around 1639) was mayor and princely Pomeranian district administrator . His mother Anna Hoppe was a daughter of the court president and director Dionysius Hoppe and Maria Fuhrmann. From 1630 he was tutored by private tutors and from 1637 he attended the Academic Gymnasium in Gdansk . Because of the Thirty Years' War in Pomerania , which also strained the family's estates, his mother sent him to the Sorø Knight Academy in 1640 . Together with his brother, he went on a journey in 1642 to do military service in the Netherlands or France . Already in Hamburg they met the general Gustaf Horn , who persuaded them to enter the Swedish service and took them to Stockholm . Matthias Palbitzki became court squire of Queen Christina . In 1643 he was made an ensign in the life guard and promoted to lieutenant captain in the same year. From 1645 he made a trip through western and southern Europe and to Egypt . On the way back he stayed in Rome for almost a year and then traveled to Sweden via Switzerland and France. On his return in October 1648 he was appointed chamberlain.

At the beginning of 1649 Queen Christina sent him on a diplomatic mission to the Republic of Venice , where he was supposed to negotiate to mediate in the conflict with Poland, and to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . After another stay in Rome, he returned to Sweden. In 1650 he was sent to the Nuremberg execution day , where he brought the news of his appointment to the Swedish throne to Generalissimo Karl von Pfalz-Zweibrücken. In 1651 he undertook further diplomatic missions to France, Spain and the court of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria in Brussels on behalf of Charles X. Gustav . In Spain he succeeded in resuming the trade relations that had been interrupted since the 1630s. He then went on a long journey through the country and visited the city of Sagunto . On the way home he tried in vain to mediate in the Fronden in Paris . In 1654 he was sent again to France. On the way back he courted the abdicated Queen Christina in Antwerp .

Little is known about his duties under Karl X. Gustav. According to his own statements, he followed the king in the Polish-Swedish War and accompanied him to Hamburg in 1657 and to Gothenburg in 1658. At court he was a confidante for various foreign envoys.

Under the guardianship government for Charles XI. he was reinstated in the diplomatic service. From summer 1664 to spring 1665 he was the Swedish ambassador in Warsaw. In the following year he was President of the Government of Swedish Pomerania , and thus also President of the Court , and after a few weeks in office he was sent back to Poland. In 1666 he was sent to the German imperial court to communicate the Swedish position in the conflict with Bremen. He refused the offer made to him in 1667 to be admitted to the Swedish Imperial Council .

Palbitzki had a comprehensive education, including special knowledge of Latin and Greek literature . He emerged as a connoisseur and mediator of European, especially ancient and Italian art and recruited foreign artists such as the sculptor Nicolas Cordier and the engraver Eric Parise.

His diplomatic skills were highly valued. In 1675 he was raised to the status of Swedish baron.

family

Matthias Palbitzki married on January 26, 1654 in Julita Anna Regina Khevenhüller (* 1618; † June 24, 1666), a daughter of the Reichsrat Paul Khevenhüller and Regina Catharina von Windisch-Grätz . Your children were:

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personal data
SURNAME Palbitzki, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolp , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1677
Place of death Julita