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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.
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There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
Swedish monarchs includes three queens regnant also to be found under Swedish queens and one duchess regent also found under Swedish princesses. The list of articles below is complete (as of July 15, 2009) with all legitimate monarchs included. Regarding alphabetical (and chronological) name sorting, note:
Family tree of Swedish monarchs. 2 languages. ... Euphemia of Sweden (1317–1370) Valdemar IV of Denmark (1320–1375) Magnus IV (1316–1374) r. 1319–1364: Albert
Sweden's monarchy is amongst the oldest in the world, with a regnal list stretching back to the tenth century, starting with Eric the Victorious; the Swedish monarchy has, for the past thousand years, undergone cycles of decline and strengthening, culminating in the modern constitutional monarchy. [7]
The legendary kings of Sweden (Swedish: sagokonungar, sagokungar, lit. 'saga kings / fairy tale kings') according to legends were rulers of Sweden and the Swedes who preceded Eric the Victorious and Olof Skötkonung, the earliest reliably attested Swedish kings. The stories of some of these kings may be embellished tales of local rulers or ...
Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de Suede [Short Chronological History of Sweden] (in French). Paris: Jean-Thomas Herissant. hdl:2027/nyp.33433061828004. {}: |work= ignored ; Jon Stefansson (1917). "Synchronistic Tables of Events in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway". Denmark and Sweden, with Iceland and Finland. The story of the nations.