 He was born near Uppsala to Baroness Margareta Grip av Vinäs and Herman Wrangel on 23 December 1613.By paternal descent, he was a member of the Wrangel family of Baltic German origin, branches of which settled in Sweden, Russia and Germany.Wrangel married Anna Margareta von Haugwitz (died 20 March 1673), who bore him eleven children, six of whom died very young.