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Charles XI or Carl (Swedish: Karl XI; 4 December [O.S. 24 November] 1655 – 15 April [O.S. 5 April] 1697) [2] was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death, in a period of Swedish history known as the Swedish Empire (1611–1721). He was the only son of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp. His father died ...
The House of Carlson began with Gustaf Carlson, the illegitimate eldest son of king Charles X Gustav of Sweden and his mistress Märta Allertz. The young Gustaf was given the two estates of Börringe and Lindholmen by his father. Gustaf was in 1675 elevated to Countly status alongside his two estates, by his half-brother king Charles XI.
Charles X Gustav (1622–1660) r. 1654–1660: Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1616–1662) Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617–1677) Charles XI (1655–1697) r. 1660–1697: John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach 1654–1686: Johanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach (1651–1680) Frederick VII, Margrave of ...
The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1697–1718 (1960). also published as The sword does not jest. The heroic life of King Charles XII of Sweden (St. Martin's Press 1960). Browning, Oscar. Charles XII of Sweden (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1899). Fielding, Henry (Translator), The Military History of Charles XII.
The House of Bernadotte [a] is the royal family of Sweden, founded there in 1818 by King Charles XIV John of Sweden. It was also the royal family of Norway between 1818 and 1905. Its founder was born in Pau in southern France as Jean Bernadotte.
Charles IX, also Carl (Swedish: Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), reigned as King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I ( r. 1523–1560 ) and of his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud , the brother of King Eric XIV and of King John III , and the uncle of Sigismund , who became king both of ...
Painting representing the Battle of Bråvalla, a legendary battle which supposedly took place in the 8th century, fought partly between the Svear and Götar. There were organized political structures in Sweden before the kingdom was unified; based on archaelogical evidence, early tribal societies are believed to have transitioned into organized chiefdoms in the first few centuries AD, perhaps ...
Though known as King Charles XV in Sweden (and also on contemporary Norwegian coins [6]), he was actually the ninth Swedish king by that name, as his predecessor Charles IX (reigned 1604–1611) had adopted a numeral according to a fictitious history of Sweden. [7] Charles, like his father Oscar I, was an advocate of Scandinavianism and the ...