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Lorentz Creutz (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈlǒːrɛnsˈkrœjts]; 1615 – 1 June 1676) was aSwedishfriherre (roughly equivalent to abaron), government administrator, county governor (landshövding) ofKopparberg County (1655–62), member of the Privy Council and supreme commander of theSwedish navy for a few months in 1676.
He successfully served as an administrator in the Treasury in later years and was appointed as navy commander in early 1676 during theScanian War. However, his complete lack of naval military experience combined with the generally poor state of the Swedish fleet led to his death onKronan, the flagship of the navy, at thebattle of Öland on 1 June 1676.
Creutz married thefriherrinna (roughly baroness) Elsa Duwall (1620–1675), daughter of general Jakob MacDougall (ennobled as "Duvall") and Anna von der Berge.
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