JohnI (Swedish: Johan Sverkersson; c. 1201 – 10 March 1222) was King ofSweden from 1216 until his death in 1222. John was the son of King Sverker II...
Oscar I (born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859) was King ofSweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 until his death. He was the...
Frederick I (Swedish: Fredrik I; 28 April 1676 – 5 April 1751) was King ofSweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort ofSweden from 1718...
John III (Swedish: Johan III, Finnish: Juhana III; 20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592) was King ofSweden from 1569 until his death. He was the son of...
(1450–1481) and Sweden (1457–1464). From 1460 to 1481, he was also duke of Schleswig (within Denmark) and count (after 1474, duke) of Holstein (within...
Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King ofSweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first...
Gustav I (born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family; 12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), commonly known as Gustav Vasa, was King ofSweden from 1523...
Sverker I or Sverker the Elder (Old Swedish: Swærkir konongær gambli; c. 1100 - 25 December 1156) was King ofSweden from about 1132 until his murder. Of non-royal...
Sweden, formally the Kingdom ofSweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and...
Church ofSweden. However, his eldest son and successor Erik XIV ofSweden was overthrown by Gustav's younger son, King John III ofSweden. John III married...
Religion in Sweden has, over the years, become increasingly diverse. Christianity was the religion of virtually all of the Swedish population from the...
The Church ofSweden (Swedish: Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with...
The House of Bernadotte is the royal family ofSweden, founded there in 1818 by King Charles XIV JohnofSweden. It was also the royal family of Norway between...
The monarchy ofSweden is centred on the monarchical head of state ofSweden, by law a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system...
The Order of Saint John in Sweden (Swedish: (S:t) Johanniterorden i Sverige [ˈsǎŋkt ʝʊhanˈîːterˌoːɖɛn ˈiː ˈsvæ̌rʝɛ]) is a Protestant chivalric order....
the son of King John III ofSweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund Iof Poland. Elected monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian...
Margaret I (Danish: Margrete Valdemarsdatter; March 1353 – 28 October 1412) was Queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (which included Finland)...
Charles VIII (Swedish: Karl; c. 1408–1470), contemporaneously known as Charles II and called Charles I in Norwegian context, was king ofSweden (1448–1457...
(Swedish: Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), reigned as King ofSweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I (r...
The national flag ofSweden (Swedish: Sveriges flagga) consists of a yellow or gold Nordic cross (i.e. a horizontal cross extending to the edges, with...
as the son ofJohn, King of Denmark and his wife, Christina of Saxony. Christian descended, through Valdemar IofSweden, from the House of Eric, and from...
Astrid ofSweden (17 November 1905 – 29 August 1935) was a member of the Swedish House of Bernadotte and later became Queen of the Belgians as the first...
This list records the monarchs ofSweden, from the late Viking Age to the present day. Sweden has continuously been a monarchy since the country's consolidation...