CHARLES XI, King of Sweden

1655–97, king of Sweden (1660–97), son and successor of Charles X. Charles ascended the throne at the age of five, so a council of regency ruled until 1672. The regency ended Swedish wars with favorable peace treaties (see Charles X), but mismanaged internal affairs. On reaching his majority Charles obtained from the Riksdag the restitution of the crown lands that had been given away. Sweden was involved in the third of the Dutch Wars as an ally of Louis XIV. Charles was defeated (1675) at Fehrbellin by Frederick William of Brandenburg, who overran Swedish Pomerania, known also as Hither Pomerania. Against Denmark Charles was more successful, particularly at Landskrona (1677). At the Treaty of Saint-Germain (1679) with Brandenburg, Charles, through the influence of Louis XIV, regained Hither Pomerania. The Peace of Lund (1679) with Denmark drew the Scandinavian nations closer together, and in 1680, Charles married Princess Ulrika of Denmark. In Sweden Charles set about increasing the royal power at the expense of the nobles. The Riksdag of 1682 gave him absolute power, which he used efficiently. His son succeeded him as Charles XII.

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books on: Charles XI King of Sweden  - 209 results

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Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden
Book by Carl Gustafson Klingspor, John A. Gade; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916
Subjects: Charles--Xii--King Of Sweden--1682-1718, Sweden--History
...Judeorum Et infernus rusticorum . As in the days of our King Charles XI, of blessed memory, William of Orange, Sir William...and the great Elector of Brandenburg had stood against King Louis of France, so now Prince Eugene, John of Marlborough...
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Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Book by Ronald Hutton; Clarendon Press, 1989
Subjects: Charles--Ii--King Of England--1630-1685, Great Britain--History--Charles Ii, 1660-1685, Great Britain--Kings And Rulers--Biography
...Petrie, Letters of Charles I , pp. 239-40; Clarendon, History , xi. 189-92. 97. CSPD...Clarendon, History , xi. 212-15; Bod. L...Wedgwood , The Trial of Charles I 1964 , p. 170. 99...Sir William Bellenden to Sweden ; Thomas Elliot to Portugal...
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Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682- 1719
Book by R. Nisbet Bain; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1895
Subjects: Charles--Xii--King Of Sweden--1682-1718, Sweden--History--Charles Xii, 1697-1718
...General, 271 Augustus II., King of Poland, 51 , 53 , 55 , 58...141 Cederhjelm, 79 Celsing, 206 Charles II., King of Spain, 50 , 78 Charles X., King of Sweden, 8 - 10 , 24 , 57 , 104 Charles XI., King of Sweden, early exploits...
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Queen Christina. Charles XII. Gustav III
Book by Walter Johnson, August Strindberg; University of Washington Press, 1955
Subjects: Charles--Xii--King Of Sweden--1682-1718--Drama, Gustaf--Iii--King Of Sweden--1746-1792--Drama, Kristina--Queen Of Sweden--1626-1689--Drama
...framed in glass with the Kings commentary! PAPILLON leaves...words, worthy of a great king. "Freedom of the press...permitted in the last century, King Charles XI 6 would perhaps not have...freedom of the press a king learns the truth, which...
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Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden
Book by Mary Elizabeth Ailes; University of Nebraska Press, 2002
Subjects: British--Sweden--History--17th Century, Sociology, Military--Sweden--History--17th Century, Sweden--Emigration And Immigration--History--17th Century, Sweden--History--17th Century
...Leslie wrote to Charles XI of Sweden regarding his failed...Swedish service. The king had commissioned...circumstances in Sweden. By the late 1670s...In the i68os, Charles XI resolved the economic...monar- chy in Sweden. With the creation...
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journal articles on: Charles XI King of Sweden  - 59 results

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Ships, Sailors, and Mediators: England's Naval Aid to Sweden 1658-1659
Journal article by Mary Elizabeth Ailes; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005
Subjects: British military assistance--16th century AD, British military assistance--History, England--History, England--Military aspects, England--Military policy, Military assistance, British--16th century AD, Military assistance, British--History
...the Danish kings allies...the Danish king had little...the king of Sweden refused to...of Denmark, Charles X Gustavus...portage in Sweden in November...the Swedish kings were not anxious...February 1660, Charles X Gustavus...of the new king, Charles XI, the Swedish...
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Sweden, the First Modern State: Tilly's Assertion, "War Makes States, and Vice Versa"
Journal article by John P. Maarbjerg; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 76, 2004
Subjects: A Revolution from Above?: The Power State of 16th and 17th Century Scandinavia (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, De stora krigens tid: Om Sverige som militarstat och bondesamhalle (Book)--Book reviews, Kungen, fogdarna och riket: Lokalforvaltning och statsbyggande under tidig Vasatid (Book)--Book reviews, Pa vag mot militarstaten: Krigsbefalets etablering i den aldre vasatidens Sverige (Book)--Book reviews, Statsmakt och bondemotstand: Allmoge och overhet under stora nordiska kriget (Book)--Book reviews
...imprisoned in 1563. The kings suspicions of the dukes...and his younger brother Charles led a rebellion that...in the 1580s when Duke Charles, in his turn, clashed...1607) who was already king of Catholic Poland...his father in 1593, Charles declared himself regent...denied him access to Sweden, and finally ousted...
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The Place de Nos Conquetes and the Unraveling of the Myth of Louis Xiv
Journal article by Rochelle Ziskin; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Area planning & development, Castles & palaces, History, Kings, Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715), Paris France
...glorifying the feats of a youthful king, who had, until early 1661...his chief cultural adviser Charles Perrault envisioned a General...meetings was to have been the kings library. With the Crown overseeing...stamping the image of the king into the nations coinage...devoted to the production of the kings gloire, they were to be celebrated...34); L. M. Bryant, The King and the City in the Parisian...The lit de justice of the Kings of France: Constitutional...
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`The Ballad of St Stephen and Herod': Biblical History and Medieval Popular Religious Culture
Journal article by Thomas D. Hill; Medium Aevum, Vol. 70, 2001
Subjects: Ballads--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kings and rulers--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Religious life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., St Stephen and Herod (Song)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...this strange legend of St Steven being King Herods clerk of the kitchen is derived...seruyd him of bred and cloth, as euery king befalle. Steuyn out of kechone cam, wyth...subversive aspect of the narrative. The bad King Herod is confronted with subversion in...
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Merimee's Colomba and the July Monarchy
Journal article by Corry Cropper; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 2000
Subjects: French literature--19th century AD, Merimee, Prosper--Criticism and interpretation
...numeral away from Charles X, king of France at the time Merimee...Howarth, T. E. B. Citizen-King: The Life of Louis-Philippe King of the French. London: Eyre...Prosper Merimee. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1970. Sainte...
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magazine articles on: Charles XI King of Sweden  - 8 results

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Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
Magazine article by Guy Walton; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 90, Spring 2003
Subjects: Architects, History, Personal profiles, Sweden, Tessin, Nicodemus the Younger (1654-1728)
...artist who brought Sweden from the periphery...projects for the king of Denmark, the...the Louvre, the kings Parisian residence...on the site of Charles de Gaulle Airport...careers of absolutist Sweden. Well placed from...usually parsimonious King Karl XI for the upgrading...
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The Count and the Spy: Magnus Stenbock, the Swedish Aristocrat and War Hero, Lived His Life in Pursuit of Honour. Yet, as Andreas Marklund Reveals, He Died in Disgrace, Broken by the Schemes of a Cunning Spy
Magazine article by Magnus Stenbock; History Today, Vol. 60, October 2010
Subjects: Military leaders--Biography, Stenbock, Magnus--Biography
...countrys warrior kings. During his years...was handpicked by King Frederick IV of...government which ruled Sweden until King Charles XI (1655-97) came...the 17th century Sweden was a European...dynasty--six kings and one queen regnant...
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Index Volume 57: January-December 2007
Magazine article by Annie Tavener; History Today, Vol. 58, March 2008
Subjects: Bibliography--Best books, Book lists
...Vicenza by Charles Hind (viii...Koller (xi); New York...ARTHUR, King. Edward...the Three Kings (xii...succeeds as King of Scots...Kauffman (xi); The Duke...Birth of Charles Wesley (xii). CHARLES V of Spain. King Philip of...Julie Kerr (xi); Altars...Garden of Sweden (v); Casting...
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Catherine the Great: A Personal View
Magazine article by Isabel De Madariaga; History Today, Vol. 51, November 2001
Subjects: Catherine II, Empress of Russia--Conduct of life, Queens--Conduct of life, Russia--History
...who became her model of a king. In this way Catherine...with the serfs. Chapter XI of her Instruction dealt...English ambassador, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, and may...the pattern to the King of Sweden for his wife. So far I...
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Times and Tides
Magazine article by Pamela Tudor-Craig; History Today, Vol. 48, January 1998
Subjects: Wheelchairs--History
...the one designed for the King of Spain by the Flemish...the first, from Matthew XI, 28, reads: `Come...longer or shorter ... Charles I had a `Sleeping chayre...sleeping chairs belonged to Charles X of Sweden, who died in 1660 The...
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Faroes Farce Must Be Used as Motivation by Wales to Ensure We're Never Put in This Awful Position Again
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 16, 2011
Subjects: Premier League
...proud football land of John Charles, Ian Rush, Neville Southall...League, or Premier quality XI, backed up by the likes of...highly-rated young captain Andy King. That sort of squad should...to be played in Landskrona, Sweden because there were no grass...
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Father-Son Project That Grew; Collection Becomes Baltimore's Respected Walters Art Museum
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 12, 2002
...powerful and feared king Ashurnasirpal II...buildings: one on Charles Street, the original...school, like in King Arthur and Shakespeare...is "The Book of Kings: the Morgan Library...Commissioned by Louis XI of France, it was...Museum WHERE: 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore...late 17th century Sweden. Enehy, an Egyptian...
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What's on This Week
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), January 30, 2010
...was missing from the starting XI in that victory here earlier...teams from the USA, Germany, Sweden and the Commonwealth join Great...Erotic thriller, starring Charles Durning and Beverly Lynne...Johansson, Eva Mendes, Jaime King, Paz Vega and Sarah Paulson...


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encyclopedia articles on: Charles XI King of Sweden  - 7 results

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Charles XI , King of Sweden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHARLES XI , king of Sweden 1655 97, king of Sweden (1660 97), son and successor of Charles X. Charles ascended the throne at the age of five, so a council of regency ruled until 1672. The regency ended Swedish wars with favorable peace treaties...
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Charles XII , King of Sweden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHARLES XII , king of Sweden 1682 1718, king of Sweden (1697 1718), son and successor of Charles XI. The regency under which he succeeded was abolished in...
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Charles X , King of Sweden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHARLES X , king of Sweden 1622 60, king of Sweden (1654 60), nephew...Before his accession, Charles had gained both military...declared war (1657) on Sweden, and Frederick William...by his son, Charles XI. His wars were settled...
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Sweden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...archbishopric of Bremen to Sweden, making the Swedish kings princes of the Holy Roman Empire. Charles X , who became king on the abdication...southern provinces of Sweden were definitively...Denmark in 1660. Under Charles XI (reigned 1660 97...
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Fehrbellin, Battle Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FEHRBELLIN, BATTLE OF fe belen , 1675. Allied with France in the third Dutch War, King Charles XI of Sweden invaded Brandenburg but was defeated near the town of Fehrbellin, 35 mi (56 km) NW of Berlin, by the forces of Frederick William...
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