Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna

Count and Burgrave Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna-Carwinden (, ; 4 June 162821 May 1668) was a German-born soldier and diplomat. His family came from Carwinden, then in Brandenburg-Prussia, now part of modern Poland, but he was born in the Dutch Republic and spent much of his life in the service of the Swedish Empire. Appointed Field Marshal in 1666, he helped negotiate the 1667 Treaty of Breda and the 1668 Triple Alliance, the first in a series of attempts to contain French expansion under Louis XIV. He died in London on 31 May 1668 and later buried in Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden. Life Dohna was born on 4 June 1628, the fourth son of Christopher von Dohna (1583-1637) and Ursula von Solms-Braunfels (1594-1657). The family came from Carwinden, then in Brandenburg-Prussia, now part of modern Poland. His father moved to the Netherlands in 1628 when his estates were over-run during the 1626 to 1629 Polish–Swedish War; in 1630, he was appointed Governor of the Principality of Orange in 1630, which he retained until his death in 1637. Dohna's birth in the Dutch town of Delft is commemorated in the name 'Delphicus'.