Oxenstierna
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Oxenstierna, an ancient Swedish noble family, the origin of which can be traced up to the middle of the 14th century, which had vast estates in Södermanland and Uppland, and began to adopt its armorial designation of Oxenstierna ("Ox-forehead", stierna has the double meaning of "star") as a personal name towards the end of the 16th century. Its most notable members include the following:
- Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna, (1390s-1450), regent of Sweden
- Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna, (1390s-1450s)
- Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, (1417-1467)
- Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, (1583–1654), Powerful chancellor of the Realm, during Sweden's Age of Greatness
- Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, (1587–1640)
- Bengt Oxenstierna (1591–1643), Swedish Privy Councillor, Governor-General of Ingria and Swedish Livonia;
- Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna, (1611–1657)
- Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna of Korsholm and Vasa (1623–1702), President of the Royal Swedish Chancellery, Military Governor of Warsaw;
- Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1750–1818), member of the Swedish Academy;
- Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, winner of the Olympic gold medal in modern pentathlon (1932).
King Charles XVI Gustav of Sweden, the current monarch, descends from the Oxenstierna through his maternal grandmother, Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, whose ancestor Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck was son of Countess Frederica of Dohna-Schlobitten, great-great-granddaughter of Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna, 1st Count of Korsholma and Vaasa, himself father of Bengt Gabrielsson the aforementioned and first cousin of Axel and Bengt Gustafssöner, as well as great-great-great-great-grandson of regent Bengt Jönsson the aforementioned.
