Editing Gustav IV Adolf (section)

==Coup d'état and abdication==
[[Image:Gustavarrest.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Gustav IV Adolf's arrest]]
Gustav Adolf was deposed by a conspiracy of army officers.

On 7 March 1809, [[lieutenant-colonel]] [[Georg Adlersparre]], commander of a part of the so-called western army stationed in [[Värmland]], triggered the [[Coup of 1809]] by raising the flag of rebellion in [[Karlstad]] and starting to march upon Stockholm. To prevent the king from joining loyal troops in Scania, on 13 March 1809 seven of the conspirators led by [[Carl Johan Adlercreutz]] broke into the royal apartments in the palace, seized the king, and imprisoned him and his family in [[Gripsholm]] Castle; the king's uncle, Duke Charles (Karl), accepted the leadership of a provisional government, which was proclaimed the same day; and a diet, hastily summoned, solemnly approved of the [[revolution]].{{sfn|Bain|1911}}

On 29 March, Gustav IV Adolf, to save the crown for his son, voluntarily abdicated; but on 10 May, the [[Riksdag of the Estates]], dominated by the [[Swedish Army|army]], declared that not merely Gustav but his whole family had forfeited the throne,{{sfn|Bain|1911}} perhaps an excuse to exclude his family from succession based on the rumours of his illegitimacy. A more likely cause, however, was that the revolutionaries feared that Gustav Adolf's son, if he inherited the throne, would avenge his father's deposition when he came of age. On 5 June, Gustav Adolf's uncle was proclaimed King [[Charles XIII]], after accepting a new liberal [[Swedish constitution of 1809|constitution]], which was ratified by the diet the next day. In December, Gustav Adolf and his family were transported to Germany. In 1812, he divorced his wife.

In exile Gustav Adolf used several titles, including Count [[House of Holstein-Gottorp|Gottorp]] and Duke of [[House of Holstein-Gottorp|Holstein-Eutin]], and finally settled at [[St. Gallen]] in [[Restoration and Regeneration (Switzerland)|Switzerland]] where he lived in a small hotel in great loneliness and indigence,{{sfn|Bain|1911}} under the name of Colonel Gustafsson. It was there that he suffered a stroke and died on 7 February 1837. He was buried in [[Moravia]]. At the suggestion of King [[Oscar II]] and Norway, his body was finally brought to Sweden and interred in [[Riddarholm Church]]. Gustav Adolf was the great-grandfather of [[Victoria of Baden]], Oscar's new daughter-in-law at the time and eventually Queen of Sweden as consort to Oscar's son [[Gustaf V]].

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