Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
List of Swedish monarchs
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== House of Holstein-Gottorp (1751–1818) === {{Main|House of Holstein-Gottorp (Swedish line)}} {{legend|#ffe3f9|Oldenburg dynasty}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:100%;" |+ ! width="5%" |Portrait ! width="14%" |Name ! width="5%" |Arms ! width="24%" |Reign{{Efn||name=julgreg}} ! width="14%" |Succession ! width="12%" |Marriage(s) ! width="18%" |Life details ! width="3%" |[[Royal cypher|Cypher]] |- |[[File:Adolph Frederick of Sweden c 1751 by Gustaf Lundberg & Jakob Björck.jpg|100px]] | style="background-color: #ffe3f9" |[[Adolf Frederick of Sweden|'''Adolf''' Frederick]]<br /><small>''Adolf Fredrik''</small> |[[File:Armoiries des rois Adolphe Frédéric, Gustave III et Charles XIII de Suède.svg|70px]] |25 March 1751 – 12 February 1771<br><small>({{Age in years, months and days|1751|3|25|1771|2|1}})</small> |Great-great-great-grandson of Charles IX;{{Efn|Adolf Frederick's mother [[Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach|Albertina Frederica]] was a great-granddaughter of [[Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg|Catherine of Sweden]], a daughter of Charles IX.{{sfn|Sundberg|2004|loc=Adolf Fredrik}}}} elected as heir to the throne in 1743 |[[Louisa Ulrika of Prussia]]<br />(4 children) |3 May 1710 – 12 February 1771<br /><small>(aged 60)</small><hr />Originally [[Prince-Bishop of Lübeck]] (1727–1750).{{Sfn|Williamson|1988|p=125}} |[[File:Royal Monogram of King Adolf Frederik of Sweden.svg|35px]] |- |[[File:Alexander Roslin - Gustav III.jpg|100px]] | style="background-color: #ffe3f9" |'''[[Gustav III]]''' |[[File:20171001140434!Armoiries des rois Adolphe Frédéric, Gustave III et Charles XIII de Suède (with mantle).svg|70px]]<br />{{Efn|The addition of a [[Mantle and pavilion (heraldry)|mantle and pavilion]] to the arms dates to the middle of the 18th century.{{sfn|Riksdag of Sweden}}}} |12 February 1771 – 29 March 1792<br><small>({{Age in years, months and days|1771|2|12|1792|3|29}})</small> |Son of Adolf Frederick | style="background-color: #ffe3f9" |[[Sophia Magdalena of Denmark]]<br />(2 children) |13 January 1746 – 29 March 1792<br /><small>(aged 46)</small><hr />Assassinated in 1792.{{Sfn|Williamson|1988|p=125}} |[[File:Royal Monogram of King Gustaf III of Sweden.svg|35px]] |- |[[File:Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.jpg|100px]] | style="background-color: #ffe3f9" |[[Gustav IV Adolf|'''Gustav IV''' Adolf]] |[[File:20150622053301!Armoiries du Roi Gustave IV Adolphe de Suède et Finlande (with mantle).svg|70px]] |29 March 1792 – 10 May 1809<br><small>({{Age in years, months and days|1792|3|29|1809|5|10}})</small> |Son of Gustav III |[[Frederica of Baden]]<br />(5 children) |1 November 1778 – 7 February 1837<br /><small>(aged 58)</small><hr />[[Coup of 1809|Deposed]] after defeat in the [[Finnish War]]; died in exile in Switzerland.{{Sfn|Williamson|1988|p=125}}{{Efn|The so-called [[Gustavians]] worked unsuccessfully in the decades that followed Gustav IV Adolf's deposition to restore his line to the throne; his son [[Gustav, Prince of Vasa]] (1799–1877), maintained his claim to the Swedish throne and protested the coronations of [[Oscar I of Sweden|Oscar I]] and [[Charles XV]]. Gustav's daughter [[Carola of Vasa]] (1833–1902), who died childless, was the last member of the Swedish branch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp. The modern Swedish royal family are Gustav IV Adolf's seniormost living descendants through the marriage between his great-granddaughter [[Victoria of Baden]] and [[Gustaf V]].{{sfn|Sundberg|2004|loc=Gustav IV Adolf}}}} |[[File:Royal Monogram of King Gustaf IV Adolf of Sweden.svg|35px]] |- |colspan=8 style="background-color: #ffe3f9" |<small>Regency of [[Charles XIII|Duke Charles]] (later King Charles XIII; 10 May – 6 June 1809)</small> |- |[[File:King Charles XIII of Sweden.jpg|100px]] | style="background-color: #ffe3f9" |'''[[Charles XIII]]'''<br /><small>''Karl XIII''</small> |[[File:Coat of Arms of Charles XIII of Sweden and Norway.svg|78x78px]] |6 June 1809<!-- Elected king on 6 June 1809 but crowned on 29 June (sources differ on which date is used to mark his accession) --> – 5 February 1818<br><small>({{Age in years, months and days|1809|6|6|1818|2|5}})</small> |Son of Adolf Frederick, elected king by the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] after a brief tenure as regent | style="background-color: #ffe3f9" |[[Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp]]<br />(2 children, died in infancy) |26 September 1748 – 5 February 1818<br /><small>(aged 69)</small><hr />Also became [[List of Norwegian monarchs|king of Norway]] in 1814{{Sfn|Williamson|1988|p=125}} |[[File:Royal Monogram of King Charles XIII of Sweden.svg|35px]] |}
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
List of Swedish monarchs
(section)
Add topic