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  1. 1 day ago · She was thus some kind of religious advisor at court, making king Magnus agree to do crusade trips and wars to Finland to make people Christian. The royal couple Magnus and Blanka donated large sums of money in 1346 so that Birgitta could build a monastery in Vadstena. After that, there was a big difference between Birgitta and the royals.

  2. May 9, 2024 · Crusades. Valdemar I (born Jan. 14, 1131, Denmark—died May 12, 1182, Denmark) was the king of Denmark (1157–82) who ended the Wend (Slav) threat to Danish shipping, won independence from the Holy Roman emperor, and gained church approval for hereditary rule by his dynasty, the Valdemars. The son of Knud Lavard, duke of South Jutland, and a ...

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  3. May 6, 2024 · brothers (Valdemar, Duke of Finland, and Eric, Duke of Södermanland) and sticking them in Nyköping Castle dungeon, he demonstrated the use of a certain something that led directly to a critical advancement in the world of surgery.€ At the age of 33, while lecturing on the telegraph (sanctioned by Professor S. Morse

  4. May 2, 2024 · Finland became an independent state on 6 December 1917, after a long struggle. The country became a republic, but if the circumstances only had been a bit different, they might have become a monarchy instead. For centuries Finland was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden. Sweden and the Republic Novgorod in 1323 regulated their borders and divided ...

  5. May 17, 2024 · Finland is a parliamentary republic under the 1999 Constitution. It is not a monarchy. What happened to the Finnish king? The last monarch of Finland was Nicholas II, who was the Czar of Russia. He served as the Grand Duke of Finland until the February revolution in 1917. He was killed the following year during the Russian Bolshevist revolution.

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  7. 5 days ago · Prince Georg of Denmark RE (Georg Valdemar Carl Axel; 16 April 1920 – 29 September 1986) was a Danish diplomat and member of the Danish royal family as a great-grandson of Christian IX. He was a first cousin of Harald V of Norway, Baudouin of Belgium, and Albert II of Belgium, as well as a second cousin of George VI of the United Kingdom .

  8. 4 days ago · Roman Catholicism. Signature. Sigismund III Vasa ( Polish: Zygmunt III Waza, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa.

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