Peter Julius Coyet
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Peter Julius Coyet was a Swedish ambassador to England during the time of Oliver Cromwell
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In 1654-1655 he was Ambassador to England. In 1657 he was reassigned to Holland. He was involved with the Peace of Roskilde in 1658. He also negotiated the breach of the peace with Denmark in the summer of 1658. Shortly afterwards he was sent again to the Netherlands to persuade this country not to supply weapons to Denmark. Coyet was knighted in 1649, and in 1657 he was appointed State Secretary of Sweden
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....
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Biography
He was born in 1618, and was the grandson of Gillis Coyet and brother of Frederick CoyettFrederick Coyett
Frederick Coyett , born in Stockholm or Moscow in 1615?, buried in Amsterdam, October 17, 1687, was a Swedish nobleman and the last colonial governor for the Dutch colony of Formosa...
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In 1654-1655 he was Ambassador to England. In 1657 he was reassigned to Holland. He was involved with the Peace of Roskilde in 1658. He also negotiated the breach of the peace with Denmark in the summer of 1658. Shortly afterwards he was sent again to the Netherlands to persuade this country not to supply weapons to Denmark. Coyet was knighted in 1649, and in 1657 he was appointed State Secretary of Sweden
State Secretary of Sweden
State Secretary of Sweden, . Each cabinet minister of the Swedish government has a State Secretary, who is the closest person working with the cabinet minister. Some cabinet ministers of higher rank, like the Minister for Finance , have more than one State Secretary...
. He died in 1667.