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1 day ago · Regency of Duke Charles (later King Charles IX; 24 July 1599 – 22 March 1604) Charles IX Karl IX: 22 March 1604 – 30 October 1611 (7 years, 7 months and 8 days) Son of Gustav I, proclaimed king after serving as regent for five years Maria of the Palatinate (6 children) 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611 (aged 61)
2 days ago · hieress of Sweden eldest sister of Charles XII of Sweden 1681–1708: Frederick IV Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp r. 1695–1702 1671–1702: Christian August 1673–1726: Albertina of Baden-Durach her grandmother was a sister of Charles X of Sweden: House of Romanov: Anna Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp r. 1725–1728 1708–1728 ...
4 days ago · Lutheran. Signature. 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.
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5 days ago · Catherine de’ Medici commissioned the Valois Tapestries to depict the magnificent festivals at the court of France. The eight tapestries are based on designs by Antoine Caron and woven in Brussels by two unknown masters in 1576. Antoine Caron (1521-1599) was born in Beauvais, France, and was the court painter for King Henry II.
Mar 15, 2024 · The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day had for its background the political and religious rivalries of the court of France. Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, a Huguenot leader, supported a war in the Low Countries against Spain as a means to prevent a resumption of civil war, a plan that the French king, Charles IX, was coming to approve in the summer of 1572.
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5 days ago · His father Sigismund, grandson of Gustav I of Sweden, had in 1592 succeeded his own father to the Swedish throne, only to be deposed in 1599 by his uncle, Charles IX of Sweden. This led to a long-standing feud wherein the Polish kings of the House of Vasa claimed the Swedish throne, resulting in the Polish–Swedish War of 1600–1629.
2 days ago · King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden: Ferdinand I 1503–1564 King in Germany r. 1531–1564 Holy Roman Emperor r. 1558–1564: Anne of Bohemia 1503–1547: Mary of Hungary 1505–1558: Louis II 1516–1526 King of Hungary: Isabella of Portugal 1503–1539: Charles V 1500–1558 King of Germany and Spain r. 1519–1556 Holy Roman Emperor r. 1519 ...
