Friday, November 19, 2021

Charles Ogier's diary entry on the French ambassador Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux having a private audience with Kristina and Maria Eleonora, dated January 2/12 (New Style), 1635

Sources:

Caroli Ogerii ephemerides, sive iter Danicum, Svecicum, Polonicum, page 167, Charles Ogier, 1656


Carl D'Ogiers Dag-Bok öfwer des Resa til Swerige år 1634, uti Franske Ambassadeurens Comte D'Avaux sälskap, öfwersatt ifrån Latinet, in Stockholms Magazin för 1780 (Februari), page 94, published by Magnus Swederus, 1780; Uppsala University Library via the Alvin portal


Från Sveriges storhetstid: franske legationssekreteraren Charles Ogiers dagbok under ambassaden i Sverige 1634-1635, page 46, published by Sigurd Hallberg, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1914


This audience is mentioned in a letter written by Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna to Axel Oxenstierna, using the Old Style date:


The diary entry:

XII. Vtramque Reginam Legatus priuatim allocutus est…

Swedish translation (by Swederus):

D. 12. upwagtade Ambassadeuren bägge Drottningarna...

Swedish translation (from source 2):

12 jan. hade ambassadören enskild audiens hos båda drottningarna…

English translation (my own):

On January 12 [1635] the ambassador had a private audience with both of the Queens…


Above: Kristina.


Above: Maria Eleonora.


Above: Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux.

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