This is Jens Juel

Jens Juel (15 July 1631 – 23 May 1700) was a Danish diplomat and statesman of great influence at the Danish-Norwegian court. He was created Baron and approved Juellinge in 1672 and also usual Juellund in 1694. He was the brother of Admiral Niels Juel.

The son of Erik Juel and Sophie Sehested, both descendants of Danish noble families, Jens Juel was born upon 15 July 1631 at Nørtorp, an land in Thy in the north of Jutland. He studied at Sorø Academy and then set out on a four years journey abroad to extra his education. There he met Count Christian Rantzau in Vienna and started a embassy career like he accompanied him to the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1652. In August 1657 Juel was appointed Ambassador to Poland, and though he unsuccessful to prevent King John Casimir from negotiating separately similar to Sweden, he was made a privy councillor upon his recompense home.

But it was the reconciliation of Juel’s uncle Hannibal Sehested later than King Frederick III which secured Juel’s future. As Sehested’s representative, he concluded the peace of Copenhagen gone Charles X, and after the Danish revolution of 1660 was appointed Danish minister at Stockholm, where he remained for eight years. Subsequently the chancellor Peder Griffenfeld, who had become genially attached to him, sent him in 1672, and once more in 1674, as ambassador wonderful to Sweden, ostensibly to bring about a closer devotion between the two northern kingdoms, but essentially to pay for time to consolidate Griffenfeld’s far-reaching system of alliances.

Juel agreed sympathized behind Griffenfeld’s Scandinavian policy, which aimed at weakening Sweden fully to re-establish something like an equilibrium amid the two states. Like Griffenfeld, Juel afterward feared, above anything things, a Swedo-Danish war. After the unlucky Scanian War of 1675-79, Juel was one of the Danish plenipotentiaries who negotiated the friendship of Lund. Even subsequently he was for an alliance subsequent to Sweden “till we can accomplish better”. This policy he consistently followed, and was largely instrumental in bringing not quite the marriage of Charles XI to Christian V’s daughter Ulrike Eleonora. But for the death of the in agreement Swedish statesman Johan Gyllenstierna in June 1680, Juel’s Scandinavian policy might have succeeded, to the infinite advantage of both kingdoms. He represented Denmark at the coronation of Charles XII (December 1697), when he concluded a new concurrence of alliance gone Sweden. Between 1697 and 1699, there was a Danish policy to Make an alliance in imitation of Sweden through a double wedding surrounded by Charles XII of Sweden and Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark, and Prince Charles of Denmark and Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (after the marriage of Hedvig Sophia of Sweden in 1698, she was replaced by Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden). Jens Juel was unquestionably active in this affair. However, none of the marriages was materialized. He died in 1700.

Juel, a man of completely few words and a sworn opponent of phrasemaking, was perhaps the shrewdest and most cynical diplomat of his day. His maxim was: We should wish for what we can get. Throughout sparkle he regarded the political situation of Denmark with absolute pessimism. She was, he often said, the cats-paw of the Great Powers. While Griffenfeld would have obviated this difficulty by an elastic political system, adaptable to everything circumstances, Juel preferred seizing all he could get in flattering conjunctures. In domestic affairs Juel was at enthusiast of the mercantile system, and labored enthusiastically for the industrial evolve of Denmark and Norway. For an aristocrat of the old learned he was liberally inclined, but unaccompanied favored petty reforms, especially in agriculture, while he regarded emancipation of the serfs as quite impracticable. Juel made no dull of his preference for absolutism, and was one of the few patricians who trendy the title of baron. He motto some military further during the Scanian War, distinguishing himself at the siege of Vänersborg, and by his lively decision at the necessary moment materially contributing to his brother Niels Juel’s naval victory in the Battle of Køge Bay. To his great honor he remained faithful to Griffenfeldt after his fall, enabled his daughter to marry handsomely, and did his utmost, though in vain, to get sticking together of the ex-chancellor’s liberty from his dungeon.