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John II Casimir Vasa (Polish: Jan II Kazimierz Waza; Lithuanian: Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660.
Mar 18, 2024 · John II Casimir Vasa (born March 22, 1609, Kraków, Pol.—died Dec. 16, 1672, Nevers, France) was the king of Poland (1648–68) and pretender to the Swedish throne, whose reign was marked by heavy losses of Polish territory incurred in wars against the Ukrainians, Tatars, Swedes, and Russians.
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John II Casimir Vasa ( Polish: Jan II Kazimierz Waza; Lithuanian: Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660. He was the first son of Sigismund III Vasa with his second wife Constance ...
John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania The Deluge. In 1648 John Casimir was elected by the Polish Parliament to succeed his half-brother on the Polish throne.
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- King Gustav I of Sweden
John II Casimir was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as titular King of Sweden from 1648 to 1660. He was the first son of Sigismund III Vasa with his second wife Constance of Austria. John Casimir succeeded his older half-brother, Władysław IV Vasa.
Władysław IV Vasa (born June 9, 1595, Kraków, Pol.—died May 20, 1648, Merecz) king of Poland (1632–48), a popular monarch who did much to heal the wounds and solve the problems created by his father, Sigismund III Vasa, an obstinate man and religious bigot who created internal friction in Poland and pursued a series of profitless wars abroad.
The refusal of King John II Casimir Vasa, the successor and brother of Władysław IV, to give up his claims to the Swedish crown offered a good pretext for resuming hostilities with the Commonwealth. Aiming originally to seize Polish and Prussian harbors, Charles Gustav saw, after the first successes, the possibility of gaining the Polish ...
