Matthias Palbitzki

Matthias Palbitzki (23 December 1623, 20 October 1677 in Julita, Södermanland) was a Swedish diplomat and Connoisseur of Arts. He was well known for his diplomatic skills and in 1675 was promoted to Swedish Baron. Lifetime

It is believed that Palbitzki was born in Słupsk, where his father Georg Matthias Palbitzki was the mayor of a Pomeranian District. From 1630 he was taught by private tutors and attended in 1637 to the Danzig Gymnastics Academy. for the continuity of the Thirty Years War in Pomerania, which also impacted the states where the family resided, in 1640 his mother sent him to Sorø Academy. In 1642 with his brother he went on a tour of the Dutch Republic and France to enter military service. While in Hamburg he met Commander Gustaf Horn, who persuaded him to serve Sweden and took him to Stockholm. Matthias Palbitzki became the Valet de chambre or Cristina's Hofjunker, Queen of Sweden. In 1643 he was an ensign of the guard and the same year he was promoted to Captain of Corvette. In 1645 he continued his great journey through western and southern Europe, through Egypt, Greece and Constantinople. On his return journey he spent almost a year in Rome and then traveled through Switzerland and France to Sweden. Arriving in October 1648 it was converted into chamberlain.

Starting 1649 Queen Cristina sent him on a diplomatic mission in the Republic of Venice. Where he was to negotiate the mediation of the conflict between Poland and the Great Ducato of Tuscany. In 1650 he was in Nuremberg, where he took news of his mission to Charles X Gustav of Sweden. In 1651, he conducted a series of diplomatic work in Madrid. In Spain came to summarize the relations of marketing. He then made an extensive tour of the country and visited the city of Sagunto. In his return to the case I try to mediate the Fronda, Franco-Spanish wars without any success. In 1654 he was sent to the court Archiduke Leopoldo Wilhelm of Austria in Brussels. Courtship to Queen Christina who had arrived in Antwerp

In his works under Carlos X Gustavo of Sweden not much is known. On his own account he followed the Swedish King in the Polish-Swedish Wars (Having been born in Poland) and accompanied him to Hamburg in 1657 and in 1658 to Gothenburg.

During the reign of Charles XI he summarized his work in the diplomatic field. From the summer of 1664 until autumn 1665, he worked as a Swedish ambassador at the Warsaw embassy. The following year he became President of the Government in Swedish Pomerania, and at the same time President of Court in Greifswald and after spending a week in office was sent back to Poland. In 1666 he was sent to the German Imperial Court to inform the Swedish position in the conflict with Bremen.

Palbitzki had an extensive education, including knowledge in Latin and Greek literatures. He became a connoisseur and promoter of European art particularly classical and Italian art as well as making known foreign artists such as the sculptor Nicolas Cordier. Family

Matthias Palbitzki married on January 26, 1654 with Julita Anna Regina Khevenhüller (* 1618; † 24 June 1666), his children were: Literature

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