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Eric XIV of Sweden

Index Eric XIV of Sweden

Eric XIV (Erik XIV; 13 December 1533 – 26 February 1577) was King of Sweden from 1560 until he was deposed in 1568. [1]

70 relations: Agda Persdotter, Anna of Saxony, Arsenic poisoning, Astrology, August Strindberg, August Strindberg Repertory Theatre, Örbyhus, Örbyhus Castle, Baltic region, Burial, Calvinism, Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg, Catherine of Pomerania, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Cecilia Månsdotter, Charles IX of Sweden, Christine of Hesse, Constantia Eriksdotter, Deposition (politics), Domenicus Verwilt, Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721), Duke of Finland, Elizabeth I of England, Erik Johansson Vasa, Estonia, Estonia under Swedish rule, Frederick II of Denmark, Georg Norman, Georg von Rosen, Gustav I of Sweden, Gustav of Sweden (1568–1607), Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, High treason, Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus, History of Sweden, History of Sweden (1523–1611), House of Vasa, Insanity, Jöran Persson, Johannes Magnus, Johannes Messenius, John III of Sweden, John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Kalmar, Karin Månsdotter, List of Finnish monarchs and Heads of State, List of Swedish monarchs, List of Swedish royal mistresses, Livonian War, Lutheranism, ..., Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Margaret Leijonhufvud, Mary, Queen of Scots, Mika Waltari, Nils Svantesson Sture, Northern Seven Years' War, Pea soup, Renata of Lorraine, Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs, Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér), Sigrid of Sweden (1566–1633), Stockholm, Stockholm Palace, Sture, Sture Murders, Swedish nobility, Tre Kronor (castle), Västerås, Västerås Cathedral, Virginia Eriksdotter. Expand index (20 more) »

Agda Persdotter

Agda Persdotter (died after 1565) also known as Agda i Porten ('Agda of the Gate'), was the official royal mistress of the future King Eric XIV of Sweden during his time as a Crown Prince in 1558-61, and possibly informally in 1563-65.

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Anna of Saxony

Anna of Saxony (23 December 1544 – 18 December 1577) was the heiress of Maurice, Elector of Saxony, and Agnes, eldest daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.

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Arsenic poisoning

Arsenic poisoning is a medical condition that occurs due to elevated levels of arsenic in the body.

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Astrology

Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

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August Strindberg Repertory Theatre

The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre is the resident company at the Gene Frankel Theatre.

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Örbyhus

Örbyhus is a locality situated in Tierp Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 1,984 inhabitants in 2010.

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Örbyhus Castle

Örbyhus Castle (Swedish: Örbyhus slott) is a castle in Tierp Municipality, Sweden.

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Baltic region

The terms Baltic region, Baltic Rim countries (or simply Baltic Rim), and the Baltic Sea countries refer to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Burial

Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground.

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Calvinism

Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.

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Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1488 – 29 June 1563, Neuhaus upon Elbe) was a member of the house of Welf and a Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.

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Catherine of Pomerania, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine of Pomerania-Wolgast (c. 1465–1526) was the wife of Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Wolfenbüttel.

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Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg

Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (Katarina in Swedish) (24 September 1513 – 23 September 1535) was the first consort of Gustav I of Sweden and Queen of Sweden from 1531 until her death in 1535.

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Cecilia Månsdotter

Cecilia Månsdotter Eka (c. 1476–1523) also called Cecilia of Eka, was a Swedish noblewoman.

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Charles IX of Sweden

Charles IX, also Carl (Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death.

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Christine of Hesse

Christine of Hesse (29 June 1543 – 13 May 1604) was Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp as the spouse of Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp.

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Constantia Eriksdotter

Constantia Eriksdotter (1560–1649) was the illegitimate daughter of Eric XIV of Sweden and Agda Persdotter.

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Deposition (politics)

Deposition by political means concerns the removal of a politician or monarch.

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Domenicus Verwilt

Domenicus Verwilt (sometimes ver Wilt) was a Flemish painter active in Sweden.

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Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721)

The Duchy of Estonia (Hertigdömet Estland, Eestimaa hertsogkond, Herzogtum Estland), also known as Swedish Estonia, (italic) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1561 until 1721 during the time that most or all of Estonia was under Swedish rule.

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Duke of Finland

Duke of Finland (in Finnish Suomen herttua; Swedish hertig av Finland) was an occasional medieval title granted as a tertiogeniture to the relatives of the King of Sweden between the 13th and 16th centuries.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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Erik Johansson Vasa

Erik Johansson Vasa (1470 – 8 November 1520) was the Lord of Rydboholm Castle in the Roslagen.

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Estonia

Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.

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Estonia under Swedish rule

Estonia under Swedish rule signifies the time between 1558 and 1710, when parts of present-day Estonia (and after 1645 all of the present-day country) were under Swedish rule.

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Frederick II of Denmark

Frederick II (1 July 1534 – 4 April 1588) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig from 1559 until his death.

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Georg Norman

George Norman, died in 1552 or 1553, was a civil servant of German origin who was in Swedish service from 1539.

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Georg von Rosen

Georg von Rosen (13 February 1843, Paris – 3 March 1923, Stockholm), was a Swedish painter, known for his treatment of subjects from Swedish history and Norse mythology.

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Gustav I of Sweden

Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm (Riksföreståndare) from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

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Gustav of Sweden (1568–1607)

Gustav (January 28, 1568 – February, 1607) was a Swedish prince, the son of Eric XIV and Karin Månsdotter.

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Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry IV (14 June 1463 – 23 June 1514), called the Elder (Heinrich der Ältere), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1491 until his death.

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High treason

Treason is criminal disloyalty.

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Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus

The Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus (The history of all Geatish and Swedish kings) is a posthumously published, partly pseudo-historical work by Johannes Magnus, Sweden's last Catholic Archbishop.

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History of Sweden

During the 11th and 12th centuries, Sweden gradually became a unified Christian kingdom that later included what is today Finland.

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History of Sweden (1523–1611)

The Early Vasa era is a period that in Swedish and Finnish history lasted between 1523–1611.

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House of Vasa

The House of Vasa (Vasaätten, Wazowie, Vaza) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden, ruling Sweden 1523–1654, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1587–1668, and the Tsardom of Russia 1610–1613 (titular until 1634).

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Insanity

Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of both group and individual behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.

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Jöran Persson

Jöran Persson, alternatively Göran Persson (c. 1530 – September 1568), was King Eric XIV of Sweden's favorite, most trusted counsellor and head of the King's network of spies.

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Johannes Magnus

Johannes Magnus (a modified form of Ioannes Magnus, a Latin translation of his birth name Johan Månsson; 19 March 1488 – 22 March 1544) was the last functioning Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian.

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Johannes Messenius

Johannes Messenius (1579–1636) was a Swedish historian, dramatist and university professor.

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John III of Sweden

John III (Johan III, Juhana III) (20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592) was King of Sweden from 1568 until his death.

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John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

John V of Saxe-Lauenburg (also numbered John IV; 18 July 1439 – 15 August 1507) was the eldest son of Duke Bernard II of Saxe-Lauenburg and Adelheid of Pomerania-Stolp (1410 – after 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaus VIII of Pomerania-Stolp.

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Kalmar

Kalmar is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea.

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Karin Månsdotter

Karin Månsdotter (in English Catherine; 6 November 1550 – 13 September 1612) was Queen of Sweden, first a mistress and then, for a few months in 1568, the consort of Eric XIV of Sweden.

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List of Finnish monarchs and Heads of State

This is a list of the monarchs of Finland until it became a republic in 1919; that is, the Kings of Sweden with Regents and Viceroys of the Kalmar Union, the Grand Dukes of Finland, a title used by most Swedish monarchs, up to the two-year Regent period following the independence in 1917, with a brief flirtation with a truly domestic monarchy.

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List of Swedish monarchs

This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden, including regents and viceroys of the Kalmar Union, up to the present time.

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List of Swedish royal mistresses

The following is a list of women known to have been mistresses to members of the Swedish Royal Family.

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Livonian War

The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia), when the Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of Denmark–Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Union (later Commonwealth) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.

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Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg (Ratzeburg, 1 January 1470 – 1 August 1543, Ratzeburg) was a Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg from the House of Ascania.

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Margaret Leijonhufvud

Margaret Leijonhufvud (née Margareta Eriksdotter; 1 January 1516 in Ekeberg Castle, Närke – 26 August 1551 in Tynnelsö Castle, Södermanland) was Queen of Sweden from 1536 to 1551 by marriage to King Gustav I.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.

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Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen).

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Nils Svantesson Sture

Nils Svantesson Sture (b. 20 July 1543 at Hörningsholm Castle, d. 24 May 1567 in the Sture Murders at Uppsala Castle) was a Swedish diplomat and soldier during the reign of Erik XIV of Sweden.

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Northern Seven Years' War

The Northern Seven Years' War (also known as the Nordic Seven Years' War, the First Northern War or the Seven Years War in Scandinavia) was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and a coalition of Denmark–Norway, Lübeck and Poland between 1563 and 1570.

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Pea soup

Pea soup or split pea soup is soup made typically from dried peas, such as the split pea.

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Renata of Lorraine

Renata of Lorraine (20 April 1544 – 22 May 1602), was by birth a member of the House of Lorraine and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria.

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Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs

The royal motto of the Swedish monarch is a Swedish royal tradition stemming from the early 16th century.

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Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér)

Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér) (died 1527), was a Swedish noble, the mother of the Swedish regent Christina Gyllenstierna and the maternal grandmother of King Gustav Vasa of Sweden.

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Sigrid of Sweden (1566–1633)

Sigrid Eriksdotter of Sweden (15 October 1566 – 1633) was a Swedish princess, the legitimized daughter of King Eric XIV of Sweden and his lover and later spouse and queen, Karin Månsdotter.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stockholm Palace

Stockholm Palace or the Royal Palace (Stockholms slott or Kungliga slottet) is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch (the actual residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia is at Drottningholm Palace).

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Sture

Sture was the name of three influential families in Sweden from the late 14th century to the early 16th century.

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Sture Murders

The Sture Murders (Sturemorden) in Uppsala, Sweden of 24 May 1567 were the murders of five incarcerated Swedish nobles by Erik XIV of Sweden, who at that time was in a state of serious mental disorder, and his guards.

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Swedish nobility

The Swedish nobility (Adeln) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class in Sweden, and part of the so-called frälse (a derivation from Old Swedish meaning free neck).

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Tre Kronor (castle)

Tre Kronor (Three Crowns) was a castle located in Stockholm, Sweden, on the site where Stockholm Palace is today.

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Västerås

Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some west of Stockholm.

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Västerås Cathedral

Västerås Cathedral (Swedish: Västerås domkyrka) is the seat of the Diocese of Västerås in the Province of Västmanland, Sweden.

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Virginia Eriksdotter

Virginia Eriksdotter (1 January 1559, Kalmar Castle – 1633), was a Swedish noble.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XIV_of_Sweden

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