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Fredrik Axel von Fersen. Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen (5 April 1719 – 24 April 1794) was a Swedish statesman and soldier of Baltic German descent. He served as Lord Marshal of the Riksdag of the Estates, and although he worked closely with King Gustav III before and through the Revolution of 1772, he later opposed the king.
Hans Axel von Fersen ( Estocolmo, 4 de septiembre de 1755 - 20 de junio de 1810) fue un conde sueco, Mariscal del Reino de Suecia, teniente general en el Ejército Real de Suecia, edecán de Rochambeau en la Guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, diplomático y estadista.
- Hans Axel von Fersen
- 20 de junio de 1810 (54 años), Estocolmo (Suecia)
- Linchamiento
- 4 de septiembre de 1755, Jakob and Johannes parish (Suecia)
- Descent and Early Life
- The Grand Tour
- Marie-Antoinette
- The American Revolutionary War
- Years Leading Up to The Revolution
- The French Revolution
- Flight to Varennes
- War Against France
- Later Years
- Swedish Politics and Death
Axel von Fersen was born in 1755 to Field Marshal Axel von Fersen the Elder and countess Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie. He was nephew of Eva Ekeblad and grandson of General Hans Reinhold Fersen. Axel was the second of four children; he had two sisters, Hedvig Eleonora and Eva Sophie, and one brother, Fabian Reinhold. Two female cousins, Ulrika von ...
On 3 July 1770, von Fersen made his first journey abroad with the intention of seeing the world and finishing his studies at military academies, including Brunswick, Turin, Strasbourg and Lüneburg. In October 1771, he passed through Switzerland and in Ferney, he met the philosopher, Voltaire. In England nearly seven years later, von Fersen looked b...
In the late summer of 1778, von Fersen travelled to Normandy with his friends, Barrington Beaumont and the Baron de Stedingk, to see a large army camp that was training under the command of the Duke of Broglie. Besides military matters, they were treated to dinner and dances attended by the officers and their wives. Von Fersen later paid his respec...
In the 1770s, the American Revolutionary War began. Von Fersen told Beaumont that in France "it is the fashion to rhapsodise over the Americans' rebelliousness against England."France had officially declared war against her "natural enemy" (Great Britain) in February 1778, but it wasn't until 1780 that French troops were sent to America. Von Fersen...
Following the end of hostilities, the United States and Sweden concluded a Treaty of Amity and Commerce. Von Fersen was awarded the Order of Cincinnatusby Washington, though he was forbidden by his monarch to wear a medallion earned fighting in a republican war. In 1783, Gustavus III asked von Fersen to join him in Germany as Captain of the Guard. ...
In late-February 1787, the Assembly of Notables was convened. Von Fersen attended the closing of the last day of that meeting, and described the gathering as "imposing". Von Fersen was secretly entrusted, by Gustavus III, with the role of special envoy to the King and Queen of France. Some sensitive diplomatic contacts between Sweden and France wer...
The situation of the royal family became considerably more desperate on 18 April 1791, when they were prevented from travelling to Saint-Cloud to attend Mass by a large hostile crowd. Escape plans had been broached earlier between Comte de Mirabeau and von Fersen, but Mirabeau's death on 2 April 1791 put an end to that discussion. Following the abo...
Even before the royal family returned to Paris, it was discovered that von Fersen was one of the people who facilitated their escape, and a warrant was put out for his arrest. Von Fersen left France and in Koblenz he put himself in touch with Comte d'Artois, the exiled prince, and Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the former Controller-General; togethe...
Von Fersen returned to Sweden in 1791. In the following years, he observed the ever-increasing expansion of the French revolutionary empire. In late December 1793, he was suspected of possible complicity in Baron Armfeldt's conspiracy to deprive the Duke of Södermanland of the regency. As a result, von Fersen was deprived of his diplomatic appointm...
Following the overthrow and exile of King Gustavus IV in 1809, a dispute over the royal succession divided the nobility and much of Swedish society. Von Fersen, now Earl Marshal of Sweden, led a political faction ("the Gustavians") which supported Gustavus' son against the popular Crown Prince Charles August. On 28 May 1810, while reviewing troops ...
1 de oct. de 2021 · Researchers used an X-ray technique to resurface the redacted text of letters exchanged between the queen and her dear friend Axel von Fersen.
- Sabrina Imbler
Axel von Fersen was a Swedish Count best known for the close friendship he enjoyed with Queen Marie Antoinette. He also played a prominent political role, earning fame for his military exploits during the American War of Independence and as an ardent defender of the royal family during the Revolution.
Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen (5 April 1719 – 24 April 1794) was a Swedish statesman and soldier. A son of Lieutenant-General Hans Reinhold von Fersen, he entered the Swedish Life Guards in 1740, and from 1743 to 1748 was in the French service in the Royal-Suedois, where he rose to the rank of...
Hans Axel von Fersen was a Swedish-French soldier, diplomat, and statesman who was active in counterrevolutionary activity after the French Revolution of 1789 and the rise of Napoleon. The son of Fredrik Axel von Fersen, Hans, like his father, transferred from the Swedish to the French army.
