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    The Council of the Realm, or simply The Council (Swedish: Riksrådet or Swedish: Rådet: sometimes in Latin: Senatus Regni Sueciae), was a cabinet of medieval...
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  • A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The term "privy"...
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  • authority, usually in the form of approving orders, on the advice of the country's privy council or executive council. In nations where the reigning monarch...
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    office was out of use. The office holder was a member of the Privy Council. From 1634, the Lord High Chancellor was one of five Great Officers of the Realm...
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  • out in the 1974 Instrument of Government. But it traces its history back to the Middle Ages when the Privy Council of Sweden was formed in the 12th century...
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    Arvid Horn (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
    1742) was a Swedish general, diplomat and politician, a member of the noble Horn family. He served twice as president of the privy council chancellery...
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  • Officers of the Realm (Swedish: de högre riksämbetsmännen) were the five leading members of the Swedish Privy Council from the later parts of the 16th...
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    Axel Oxenstierna (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
    Oxenstierna (Swedish: [ˈǎksɛl ˈʊ̂ksɛnˌɧæːɳa] ; 1583–1654) was a Swedish statesman and Count of Södermöre. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609...
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    (1439-1494), a member of the Bonde family and cousin of King Karl VIII. Svante became a member of the Privy Council of Sweden no later than 1482, but...
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    Jacob De la Gardie (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
    statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire, and a Marshal from 1620 onward. He was Privy Councilor from 1613 onward, Governor of Swedish Estonia in 1619–1622...
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