Per Brahe (the young person)

The count Per Brahe , known as the young person, (February 18th 1602 - September 2nd 1680) was a soldier and statesman Swedish. It was the small son of Per Brahe old the, one of the close relations adviser of the king Gustave Ier Vasa. Born with the castle from Rydboholm close to Stockholm, it passes to several years á the foreigner to perfect his education before becoming in 1626 Chambellan of the king Gustave Adolphe of which it gains the friendship. It goes up in rank in the army as it is illustrated in the wars against the Poland. The death of Gustave Adolphe in 1632 mark the end of its military activities and sees it turning to the policy. It is one of the regents of Sweden during the minority of Christine and it negotiates with Poland the peace treaty of Sztumska Wieś in 1635.

It leaves its most important trace in the history as a general governor of the Swedish colony of Finland (of 1637 with 1640, then of 1648 with 1654). It is the first to have started the construction of a State in a poor and relatively neglected province. It there creates the first university, the royal Académie of Åbo (current Turku), reform the administration, creates the postal system, founds 10 new cities and promotes the trade and agriculture. In spite of a rather short administration in time, it leaves an imperishable memory, the expression Kreivin aika , at the time of the count in Finnois, meaning at the good old day today.

With died of the king Charles X (1660) he becomes again regent, concentrating for a few months the main part of the capacities in full period of war.

There remains very influential until its death, in its castle of Brahehus with Visingsborg, in 1680.

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