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Erik XIV or Eric XIV (13 December 1533 – 26 February 1577) became King of Sweden following the death of his father, Gustav I, on 29 September 1560. During a 1568 rebellion against him, Erik was incarcerated by his half-brother John III. He was formally deposed by the Riksdag on 26 January 1569. [1]
This list records the monarchs of Sweden, from the late Viking Age to the present day. Sweden has continuously been a monarchy since the country's consolidation in the Viking Age and early Middle Ages, for over a thousand years. [1] The incumbent royal dynasty of Sweden is the House of Bernadotte, established on the throne in 1818.
The first union between Sweden and Norway occurred in 1319 when the three-year-old Magnus, son of the Swedish royal Duke Eric and of the Norwegian princess Ingeborg, inherited the throne of Norway from his grandfather Haakon V and in the same year was elected King of Sweden, by the Convention of Oslo. The boy king's long minority weakened the ...
The Crown of King Erik XIV of Sweden was made in Stockholm in 1561 by Flemish goldsmith Cornelius ver Weiden, [1] for the coronation of King Erik XIV. It is held in the Treasury under the Stockholm Palace along with the rest of the Swedish Royal Regalia. The treasury is open to the public as a museum.
Eric the Victorious, Swedish king c. 945 – c. 995; Eric and Eric, fought each other for the throne around 1066; Saint Erik, king before 1160 (speculative numeral: Eric IX) Erik Knutsson, king between 1208 and 1216 (speculative numeral: Eric X) Erik Eriksson, king between 1222 and 1234 (speculative numeral: Eric XI)
The following is a family tree of all the Kings of Sweden, from Eric the Victorious down to the present day ... Eric XIV (1533–1577) r. 1560–1568: John III (1537 ...
Saint Erik (died 18 May 1160), also called Eric IX [a] or Erik Jedvardsson [b] was King of Sweden from c. 1156 until his death in 1160. The Roman Martyrology of the Catholic Church names him as a saint memorialized on 18 May. [2] He was the founder of the House of Erik, which ruled Sweden with interruptions from c. 1156 to 1250.
14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; Pages in category "14th-century Swedish monarchs" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Eric XII of ...