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Count Nils Brahe (October 14, 1604 – November 21, 1632) was a Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe. He served with distinction under King Gustavus Adolphus, who regarded him as the best general in the Swedish army after Lennart Torstensson.
At the beginning of the Battle of Lützen, Brahe received a wound to his knee. Two weeks later, at Naumburg, he died of that wound.
Nils Brahe in 1632[]
Note: In some Grantville Gazette stories his name is spelled as Niels.
Nils Brahe's life was extended by the arrival of Grantville and American involvement in the Thirty Years' War, as the Battle of Lützen did not take place in the new timeline.
Gustavus appointed Brahe as administrator of the United States of Europe's Province of the Main. He was also commander of a Swedish army based in the area. In May of 1634, one of Bernard of Saxe-Weimar's maneuvers left Brahe a clear path through northern Alsace to the border of Lorraine, which allowed him to seize what became the USE's Province of the Upper Rhine.
While Brahe's army was both legally and practically under the Swedish crown[6], he kept it out of the USE's political unrest in late 1635-early 1636.
Notes[]
- ↑ This is not the Ebba Brahe who was the mistress of Gustavus Adolphus.
- ↑ While she was born after the Ring of Fire, she would have been conceived prior to it.
References[]
- ↑ From Nils Brahe d.y. on Swedish Wikipedia
- ↑ http://historiska-personer.nu/min-s/pcd987c79.html
- ↑ http://historiska-personer.nu/min-s/p0e6e768c.html
- ↑ 1635: The Tangled Web, "Window of Opportunity"
- ↑ http://historiska-personer.nu/min-s/pca9863b4.html and http://historiska-personer.nu/min-s/p45ca87ed.html list a Kristina Brahe, born in 1609. DeMarce gives Kerstin's age as 25 in October 1634, so it is likely that they are the same person.
- ↑ 1636: The Saxon Uprising, ch. 5