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Hans Axel von Fersen ((:hɑːns ˈaksɛl fɔn ˈfæʂɛn); 4 September 1755 – 20 June 1810) was a Swedish count, Marshal of the Realm of Sweden, a Lieutenant General in the Royal Swedish Army, one of the Lords of the Realm, aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War, diplomat and statesman. A friend of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, he died at the hands of a Stockholm lynch mob. ==Descent and early life== He was born in 1755 to the statesman and Field Marshal Axel von Fersen the Elder and the countess Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie (through her relatives to the Royal House of Vasa), and was nephew of Eva Ekeblad and grandson of General Hans Reinhold Fersen. Axel was born the second of four children. His older sister was Hedvig Eleonora (born July 2, 1753) and his two younger siblings were his sister Eva Sophie (March 30, 1757 ) and his brother Fabian Reinhold (born October 7, 1762). He had two female cousins who were Swedish ladies-in-waiting and leading socialites of the Gustavian age: Ulrika von Fersen and Christina Augusta von Fersen. It is said that his ancestors had come from Scotland to Sweden at the time of the Thirty Years' War, which took place from 1618 to 1648. Upon arriving in Sweden the family made their name quickly during the reigns of Christina (regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654 ); Charles X (of Sweden from 1654 to 1660 ); and Charles XI (of Sweden from 1660 to 1697 ). In 1735 the Fersen family purchased Steninge Palace, which overlooks lake Mälaren outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Fersen's father, the de facto parliamentary leader of the Hats party, was politically the most influential man in Sweden at the time and also one of the richest in the realm. He was the lord of four grand houses in Sweden: Löfstad (through his wife ), Steninge, Ljung and Mälsåker. Additionally he owned mines, land, forests and iron foundries in Sweden and Finland. He also owned a large share of Sweden's East India Company, the country's most profitable undertaking ever. The younger Axel was influenced to a great degree by French civilization, owing in part to his father's ties and services to Louis XV of France. Fersen's childhood tutor was a man named Jacob Johan Forslund. Even at an early age he was brought up learning different languages, including basic Latin, spoken French, and later also English, German and Italian. His later education was above all military. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Axel von Fersen the Younger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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