Editing Axel Oxenstierna (section)

==Personal life==

===Family===
[[File:Anna Åkesdotter Bååt.jpg|right|thumb|Anna Åkesdotter Bååt]]
[[File:Oxenstiernas platset stockholm.jpg|right|thumb|[[Axel Oxenstierna palace|Oxenstiernska Palace]]]]
On 5 June 1608, Axel Oxenstierna married Anna Åkesdotter Bååt (December 1579{{snd}}26 June 1649),<ref name="Oxenstierna Family Website - Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre" /> a daughter of nobleman Åke Johansson Bååt and Christina Trolle. The wedding took place at [[Fiholm Castle]], which was owned by the Oxenstierna family. Anna was constantly pregnant during her marriage, giving birth to 13 children in just 15 years, of which only five survived early childhood:
#Gustaf (29 March 1609{{snd}}1629), the oldest child, became a chamberlain.
#Johan (born and died 17 June 1610).
#[[Johan Oxenstierna|Johan]] (24 June 1611{{snd}}5 December 1657), named after his deceased brother, became a privy councillor.<ref name="Oxenstierna Family Website - Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre"/>
#Christina (29 June 1612{{snd}}8 August 1631), married [[Gustav Horn, Count of Pori|Gustav Horn]], [[Swedish Field Marshals|Field Marshal]] and [[Lord High Constable of Sweden|Lord High Constable]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxenstierna.org/person_card.php?pid=437&lang=en&show_life_events=1&show_literature=1&show_properties=1&sum_properties=1&show_images=1&session_id= |title=Oxenstierna Family Website – Catharina Axelsdotter Oxenstierna af Södermöre |work=oxenstierna.org |language=sv, en |access-date=25 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161245/http://www.oxenstierna.org/person_card.php?pid=437&lang=en&show_life_events=1&show_literature=1&show_properties=1&sum_properties=1&show_images=1&session_id= |archive-date=27 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxenstierna.org/person_card.php?pid=623&lang=en&show_life_events=1&show_literature=1&show_properties=1&sum_properties=1&show_images=1&session_id= |title=Oxenstierna Family Website – Christina Axelsdotter Oxenstierna af Södermöre |work=oxenstierna.org |language=sv, en |access-date=25 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161252/http://www.oxenstierna.org/person_card.php?pid=623&lang=en&show_life_events=1&show_literature=1&show_properties=1&sum_properties=1&show_images=1&session_id= |archive-date=27 July 2011 }}</ref>
#Catharina (29 June 1612{{snd}}25 June 1661), twin with Christina, married Johan Jespersson Cruus.
#Beata (22 November 1613{{snd}}15 January 1617).
#Barbro (12 February 1615{{snd}}21 June 1617).<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.geni.com/people/Barbro-Oxenstierna-af-S%C3%B6derm%C3%B6re/6000000001050346787| title = geni.com| date = May 2022}}</ref>
#Åke (March 1616{{snd}}1617).
#Son (1617), either stillborn or died immediately after birth.
#Maria (born and died August 1618).
#Gabriel (born and died March 1620).
#Jakob (30 July 1621{{snd}}August 1621).
#Erik (13 January 1624{{snd}}23 October 1656), served as a [[Lord High Chancellor of Sweden|Lord High Chancellor]] after the death of his father Axel in 1654.

===Properties===
Oxenstierna was in possession of large estates and many mansions. During his life he owned palaces in, among others, Estonian [[Otepää]], in Latvian [[Burtnieki]], [[Ropaži]] and [[Valmiera]], in Finnish [[Nousiainen]] (Nousis) and in Stockholm ([[Axel Oxenstierna palace|Oxenstiernska Palace]]).<ref name="Oxenstierna Family Website - Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre" /> The foremost of the mansions was [[Tidö Castle]] in [[Västmanland]].<ref name="Trettioåriga kriget"/> In 1647, [[Wallonia]]n merchant [[Louis De Geer (1587–1652)|Louis De Geer]], who had returned from a Swedish trading expedition to [[West Africa]], gifted four [[Swedish slave trade|enslaved Africans]] to Oxenstierna.<ref>{{cite news|last=Granberg|first=Mats|url=https://nt.se/kultur-noje/den-svenske-slavhandelns-fader-9988541.aspx|title=Den svenske slavhandelns fader|work=[[Norrköpings Tidningar]]|date=17 July 2014|access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref>