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Lutheranism. Signature. Gustav III (24 January [O.S. 13 January] 1746 – 29 March 1792), [a][1] also called Gustavus III, [2] was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick [1] and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden. Gustav was a vocal opponent of what he saw as the abuse of political ...
In 1771, the King died and she became Queen Dowager. By this time, Louisa Ulrika was immensely unpopular in Sweden. When the news of the old King's death reached her son, the new King Gustav III of Sweden, who was then in Paris, he wrote that the Queen Mother be protected, as "I know how little loved my mother is".
Gustav III died of his wounds on 29 March and on 16 April Anckarström was sentenced. He was stripped of his estates and nobility privileges. He was sentenced to be cast in irons for three days and publicly flogged, his right hand to be cut off, his head removed, and his corpse quartered. [1]
Gustaf V (1858–1950) r. 1907–1950: Victoria of Baden (1862–1930) Gustaf VI Adolf (1882–1973) r. 1950–1973: Prince Gustaf Adolf Duke of Västerbotten (1906–1947) Carl XVI Gustaf (b. 1946) r. 1973–present: Crown Princess Victoria Duchess of Västergötland (b. 1977) (Crown Princess 1980-present) Prince Carl Philip Duke of Värmland ...
King Gustav III. Adolf Frederick of Sweden died on 12 February 1771. The elections afterward resulted in a partial victory for the Caps party, especially among the lower orders; but in the estate of the peasantry the Caps majority was merely nominal, while the mass of the nobility was dead against them.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. King Gustav III of Sweden and His Brothers is an oil painting by the Swedish portrait painter Alexander Roslin showing Gustav with his two brothers, Prince Frederick Adolf and Prince Charles, later Charles XIII of Sweden. [1] Frederick is standing, Gustav is sitting to the left, and Charles is to the right.
Amphion. (ship) Amphion was the personal pleasure craft of king Gustav III of Sweden. She was designed by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, built at Djurgårdsvarvet in Stockholm in the summer of 1778, and launched the same year. Amphion, named after Zeus' son and culture patron in Greek mythology, served as a royal yacht and headquarters ship.
The Revolution of 1772, also known as The Bloodless Revolution (Swedish: Revolutionen) or the Coup of Gustav III (Gustav III:s statskupp or older Gustav III:s statsvälvning), was a Swedish coup d'état performed by King Gustav III of Sweden on 19 August 1772 to introduce a division of power between the king and the Riksdag of the Estates, resulting in the end of the Age of Liberty and the ...