Lorentz Creutz
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Lorentz Creutz was a Swedish friherre, government administrator, county governor of Kopparberg County, member of the Privy Council and supreme commander of the Swedish navy for a few months in 1676.
Contemporary portrait of Lorentz Creutz
Kronan (ship)
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Kronan, also called Stora Kronan, was a Swedish warship that served as the flagship of the Swedish Navy in the Baltic Sea in the 1670s. When built, the ship was one of the largest seagoing vessels in
Lorentz Creutz
…Scanian War. However, his complete lack of naval military experience combined with the generally poor state of the Swedish fleet led to his death on Kronan, the flagship of the navy, at the battle of Öland on 1 June 1676. Creutz married the friherrinna (roughly baroness) Elsa Duwall (1620–1675), daughter…
Reconstruction by Jacob Hägg, 1909
Detail of engraving of Stockholm from Suecia antiqua et hodierna by Erik Dahlberg and Willem Swidde, printed in 1693. The view shows the Swedish capital as a bustling port, and in the foreground the peak of Kastellholmen next to the royal shipyards on Skeppsholmen.
Salvaged cannons of various types from Kronan on display at Kalmar County Museum
Firearms, including muskets, on display at Kalmar County Museum