Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa, 1st Count of Korsholm and Vaasa, was a Swedish statesman, jurist and diplomat who lived from 18 March 1586 to 12 December 1656. He served as Governor-General of Reval and Swedish Estonia from 1611, became a Privy Councillor and Master of the Ordnance in 1617, and was Governor-General of Finland from 1631 to 1633. He was named Lord High Treasurer of Sweden in 1634, served as Governor-General of Swedish Livonia from 1645 to 1647, was made 1st Count of Korsholm and Vaasa in 1651, and became Lord High Admiral of Sweden in 1652. He married Anna Gustafsdotter Baner in 1610 and the couple had eleven children.
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