Peter Julius Coyet

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Peter Julius Coyet , also Coijet , (born February 1, 1618 in Stockholm , † June 11, 1667 in Breda ) was one of the most important Swedish diplomats of his time.

Life

The family emigrated to Sweden from Flanders probably around 1569 . The father Gillis Coijet or Julius Coyet the Younger († 1634) was a goldsmith and mint master. The mother Catharina von Steinberg was the daughter of the Stockholm merchant and goldsmith Johann von Steinberg. Peter attended the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam and studied at the University of Leiden from 1637 . After he had disputed there in 1639 , he was employed in the office of governor Friedrich Heinrich . In 1643 he traveled to Sweden. In 1647 he became a trainee lawyer in the royal chancellery and traveled to Moscow as a secretary with an embassy. In 1649 he and his brother Fredric Coyet were ennobled . In Tjurbo Härad in Västmanland he became Häradshövding in 1650. In 1652 Peter Julius Coyet was accepted as an assessor in the Board of Commerce and a confidante of the Board President Erik Axelsson Oxenstierna . In 1654 he traveled to England as envoy extraordinary , where he led alliance negotiations and trade talks. In particular, he should promote the use of the Swedish Baltic ports for English trade with Russia. Although the Swedes sent three more envoys to London, there was no satisfactory agreement with the English negotiating partners under Bulstrode Whitelocke . In the year of his departure in 1656 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Garter .

In the same year Peter Julius Coyet became State Secretary, accompanied Karl X. Gustav on his campaigns during the Second Northern War and belonged to various embassies. In 1657 he was appointed councilor. As Sweden's plenipotentiary, he conducted preliminary negotiations for the Peace of Roskilde in 1658 . After Charles X. Gustav had broken the peace in the summer of 1658, he wrote a letter with which he was supposed to justify the actions of his king before the European ruling houses. In 1659 and 1660 he was an envoy in the Netherlands to persuade the States General to abandon military support for Denmark, but this did not succeed. After further delegations he was sent to the chancellery in 1666 and as ambassador to England in the same year. Coyet died in 1667 during the peace negotiations in Breda , where Sweden acted as a mediator between the Netherlands and England. His body was transferred to Sweden and buried in the Nikolaikirche in Stockholm.

Peter Julius Coyet married Catharina Magdalena Leuhusen (1628–1647) in 1645, the daughter of the Stockholm mayor and assessor in the commercial college, Welam Regnersson Leuhusen. She died after the birth of her son Wilhelm Julius Coyet (1647–1709). With his second wife Gertrud Hoghusen († 1647), the daughter of a wine merchant who immigrated from Westphalia, he had five sons and three daughters.

literature

  • Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor. Part 1, Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1858, p. 459 ( Google books ).
  • Heiko Droste: In the service of the crown. Swedish diplomats in the 17th century . In: Nordic history . Volume 2. Lit-Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9256-5 , p. 385 ( Google books ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Coyet, Peter Julius . In: Nils Linder (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 3 : Duplicate capitulum . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1880, Sp. 607 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Stefan Troebst: Trade Control, "Derivation", containment. Swedish Moscow Policy 1617–1661. In: Publications of the Eastern European Institute Munich. Series of research on the Baltic Sea region. Vol. 2, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03880-2 , pp. 415-418 ( Google books ).
personal data
SURNAME Coyet, Peter Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coijet, Peter Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1667
Place of death Breda