Swedish-Dutch nobleman and military officer. He was a premarital son of King Carl X Gustav with a councilor's daughter named Märta Allertz. He received his first education from King Carl IX's illegitimate son, Admiral Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, and later Bishop Samuel Enander of Linköping. After his father's death the widowed Queen Hedwig Eleanor took him under her wing "in loving memory of our blessed lord ". Erik Lindschöld managed his studies and accompanied him on a journey through Germany, the Netherlands, England, France and Italy from 1659 to 1668. At the age of twenty-one, Gustaf joined the Dutch army where he participated in warfare against France, but returned home to Sweden in 1674, where during his absence in 1673 he was appointed colonel of the Upland Regiment. During the war of 1675–1679, Gustav participated with distinction in the battles of Lund and in Rügen in 1678, where he was commander of a recruited regiment. In 1679 he fell into Brandenburg captivity, was in Stockholm in 1680, but left Sweden again after a couple of years, probably out of resentment at not having been given a council position and at being deprived the large estates of Börringe and Lindholm. These had been given to him by his father only to be lost again during the "reduction" of noble lands carried out by his half-brother King Carl XI.
He enlisted in Dutch military service. There he became a lieutenant general, married in 1685 in Ameland, followed William of Orange on expedition to England in 1688 and fought alongside him in Ireland in 1690. He spent his later life on literary projects in the Dutch province of Friesland, where he died without surviving children in 1708 at his then-famous castle of Ter Hoorne (Grut-Terherne) in the Frisian village of Bitgum (Beetgum). In 1674 he had been elevated to a comital level of Swedish nobility with Carlson as his noble family name and Börringe and Lindholmen as his counties. He was married to Baroness Isabella Susanna von Schwartzenberg. Their only child, a daughter, died before she could be baptized. Count Gustav Carlson's exact place of burial is not definitely known but it can safely be assumed to have been in the well-known Schwartzenburg family grave in this church (Sint-Martinuskerk of Bitgum).
He enlisted in Dutch military service. There he became a lieutenant general, married in 1685 in Ameland, followed William of Orange on expedition to England in 1688 and fought alongside him in Ireland in 1690. He spent his later life on literary projects in the Dutch province of Friesland, where he died without surviving children in 1708 at his then-famous castle of Ter Hoorne (Grut-Terherne) in the Frisian village of Bitgum (Beetgum). In 1674 he had been elevated to a comital level of Swedish nobility with Carlson as his noble family name and Börringe and Lindholmen as his counties. He was married to Baroness Isabella Susanna von Schwartzenberg. Their only child, a daughter, died before she could be baptized. Count Gustav Carlson's exact place of burial is not definitely known but it can safely be assumed to have been in the well-known Schwartzenburg family grave in this church (Sint-Martinuskerk of Bitgum).
Swedish-Dutch nobleman and military officer. He was a premarital son of King Carl X Gustav with a councilor's daughter named Märta Allertz. He received his first education from King Carl IX's illegitimate son, Admiral Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, and later Bishop Samuel Enander of Linköping. After his father's death the widowed Queen Hedwig Eleanor took him under her wing "in loving memory of our blessed lord ". Erik Lindschöld managed his studies and accompanied him on a journey through Germany, the Netherlands, England, France and Italy from 1659 to 1668. At the age of twenty-one, Gustaf joined the Dutch army where he participated in warfare against France, but returned home to Sweden in 1674, where during his absence in 1673 he was appointed colonel of the Upland Regiment. During the war of 1675–1679, Gustav participated with distinction in the battles of Lund and in Rügen in 1678, where he was commander of a recruited regiment. In 1679 he fell into Brandenburg captivity, was in Stockholm in 1680, but left Sweden again after a couple of years, probably out of resentment at not having been given a council position and at being deprived the large estates of Börringe and Lindholm. These had been given to him by his father only to be lost again during the "reduction" of noble lands carried out by his half-brother King Carl XI.
He enlisted in Dutch military service. There he became a lieutenant general, married in 1685 in Ameland, followed William of Orange on expedition to England in 1688 and fought alongside him in Ireland in 1690. He spent his later life on literary projects in the Dutch province of Friesland, where he died without surviving children in 1708 at his then-famous castle of Ter Hoorne (Grut-Terherne) in the Frisian village of Bitgum (Beetgum). In 1674 he had been elevated to a comital level of Swedish nobility with Carlson as his noble family name and Börringe and Lindholmen as his counties. He was married to Baroness Isabella Susanna von Schwartzenberg. Their only child, a daughter, died before she could be baptized. Count Gustav Carlson's exact place of burial is not definitely known but it can safely be assumed to have been in the well-known Schwartzenburg family grave in this church (Sint-Martinuskerk of Bitgum).
He enlisted in Dutch military service. There he became a lieutenant general, married in 1685 in Ameland, followed William of Orange on expedition to England in 1688 and fought alongside him in Ireland in 1690. He spent his later life on literary projects in the Dutch province of Friesland, where he died without surviving children in 1708 at his then-famous castle of Ter Hoorne (Grut-Terherne) in the Frisian village of Bitgum (Beetgum). In 1674 he had been elevated to a comital level of Swedish nobility with Carlson as his noble family name and Börringe and Lindholmen as his counties. He was married to Baroness Isabella Susanna von Schwartzenberg. Their only child, a daughter, died before she could be baptized. Count Gustav Carlson's exact place of burial is not definitely known but it can safely be assumed to have been in the well-known Schwartzenburg family grave in this church (Sint-Martinuskerk of Bitgum).
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