Lars Kagg (1 May 1595 – 19 November 1661) was a Swedish count and military officer. He was a political ally of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, a member of the Privy Council of Sweden and Field Marshal during the Thirty Years' War.

Kagg was born at the Kiellstorp estate in Örslösa parish in Skaraborg, now Västra Götaland County. He was the son of Chamberlain Nils Mathisson Kagg. In 1609, at the age of fourteen, he was taken to the court of King Charles IX of Sweden, where he formed a lifelong relationship with Crown Prince Gustav Adolph.

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In 1626, he became deputy governor of Narva and Ivangorod in Swedish Ingria. In 1628, he became colonel of in the Jönköping infantry regiment. In 1631, he became commander in Brandenburg an der Havel and Spandau. In 1632, he became governor of the city of Magdeburg. He was made Lord High Constable of Sweden in 1660.

Lars Kagg

In 1647, Kagg acquired Kaggeholms gård, an estate on the island of Helgö situated in Lake Mälaren, today the site of Kaggeholm Castle (Kaggeholms slott).

Lars Kagg

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Kaggeholms slott

1595 births

1661 deaths

Field marshals of Sweden

Swedish nobility

Members of the Privy Council of Sweden

17th-century Swedish politicians

17th-century Swedish military personnel