ABSTRACT
This book focuses on the employees of the Swedish De la Gardie family. The people who served in the mansions and on the estates owned or otherwise controlled by the De la Gardies were their administrators, managers, clergy, tutors, pages, domestic servants, stable staff, security staff, craftsmen, construction workers, gardeners, and farmers and foresters. They served Count Jacob De la Gardie (1583–1652) and his wife Countess Ebba Brahe (1596–1674) and their children Magnus Gabriel (1622–1686), Maria Sofia (1627–1694), Jacob Casimir (1629–1658), Pontus Fredrik (1630–1692), and Axel Julius (1637–1710) and their spouses and children. 1
