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Anton Günther, Count of Oldenburg
Anton Günther was Count of Oldenburg from 1603 until his death in 1667, and from 1647 also of Delmenhorst. Through careful diplomacy and payments to commanders he kept his county out of the fighting of the Thirty Years' War, and he won the lucrative Weser toll at Elsfleth. Famous for breeding horses, he left no legitimate heir, and Oldenburg passed to the Danish crown.
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