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  Gustav III of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gustav was educated under the care of two governors who were amongst the most eminent Swedish statesmen of the day, and ; but he owed most perhaps to the poet and historian Olof von Dalin.
Gustav first intervened actively in politics in 1768, at the time of his father's interregnum, when he compelled the dominant Cap faction to summon an extraordinary diet from which he hoped for the reform of the constitution in a monarchical direction.
Gustav was inspired by a burning enthusiasm for the greatness and welfare of Sweden, and worked in the same reformatory direction as the other contemporary sovereigns of the "age of enlightenment".
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 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837), king of Sweden, of the house Holstein-Gottorp, was the son of Gustav III of Sweden and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and born at Stockholm on November 1, 1778.
On October 31, 1797 Gustav married Frederica Dorothea, daughter of Charles Frederick, grand-duke of Baden, a marriage which might have led to a war with Russia but for the fanatical hatred of the French republic shared by the emperor Paul of Russia and Gustav IV Adolf, which served as a bond of union between them.
On March 29 Gustav, in order to save the crown for his son, voluntarily abdicated; but on May 19 the Riksdag of the Estates, dominated by the army, declared that not merely Gustav but his whole family had forfeited the throne.
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 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustav IV Adolf (November 1, 1778 February 7, 1837), was King of Sweden from 1800 until his abdication in 1809.
The betrothal was actually fixed for September 22, when the whole arrangement foundered on the obstinate refusal of Gustav to allow his destined bride liberty of worship according to the rites of the Greek Orthodox Church — a rebuff which undoubtedly accelerated the death of the Russian empress.
On October 31, 1797 Gustav married Frederica, daughter of Charles Frederick, grand-duke of Baden, a marriage which might have led to a war with Russia but for the fanatical hatred of the French republic shared by the emperor Paul of Russia and Gustav IV Adolf, which served as a bond of union between them.
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 Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustav VI Adolf (Oskar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustav Adolf) (November 11, 1882 – September 15, 1973) was King of Sweden from 1950 until his death.
The affection and respect for which the Swedish people felt for Gustaf VI Adolf led to the retention of the monarchy was as a symbol of continuity, but the monarchy was made subordinate to a democratic state.
Gustav VI Adolf was a devoted archaeologist, and was admitted to the British Academy for his work in botany in 1958.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gustav was educated under the care of two governors who were amongst the most eminent Swedish statesmen of the day, Carl Gustaf Tessin and Carl Scheffer; but he owed most perhaps to the poet and historian Olof von Dalin.
On 16 August, the Cap leader, Ture Rudbeck, arrived at Stockholm with the news of the insurrection in the south, and Gustav found himself isolated in the midst of enemies.
The Treaty of Värälä saved Sweden from any such humiliating concession, and in October 1791 Gustav took the bold but by no means imprudent step of concluding an eight years' defensive alliance with the empress, who thereby bound herself to pay her new ally annual subsidies amounting to 300,000 roubles.
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Gustav Adolf travelled Europe to learn more about the customs of different lands and was fascinated by the total power of mad Czar Paul in Russia, which the young Swedish king considered an excellent example for his own country as well.
Gustav IV Adolf took the throne in 1800, and immediately a rigorous corporalism in all matters military was introduced.
Gustav IV Adolf saw himself as the saviour of Europe and set it as his goal to defeat the French revolution and - what he called - the Biblical beast, Napoleon.
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 GUSTAV IV ADOLF OF SWEDEN FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gustav IV Adolf (November_1, 1778 – February_7, 1837), was King_of_Sweden from 1800 until his abdication in 1809.
On October_31, 1797 Gustav married Frederica, daughter of Charles Frederick, grand-duke of Baden, a marriage which might have led to a war with Russia but for the fanatical hatred of the French republic shared by the emperor Paul_of_Russia and Gustav IV Adolf, which served as a bond of union between them.
On March_29 Gustav, in order to save the crown for his son, voluntarily abdicated; but on May_19 the Riksdag_of_the_Estates, dominated by the army, declared that not merely Gustav but his whole family had forfeited the throne.
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 Charles XIII of Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Charles XIII, Karl XIII, or Carl II, (1748-1818), king of Sweden and Norway, the second son of king Adolf Frederick of Sweden, and Louisa Ulrica of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great, was born at Stockholm on October 7, 1748.
On the death of Gustav III, Charles, now duke of Sudermannia, acted as regent of Sweden till 1796; but the real ruler of the country was the narrow-minded and vindictive Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, whose mischievous influence over him was supreme.
On the accession of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (November 1796), the duke became a mere cipher in politics till the March 13, 1809, when those who had dethroned Gustav IV Adolf appointed him regent, and finally elected king by Riksdag of the Estates.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg160 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Gustav IV Adolf King Of SWEDEN [Parents] was born on 1 Nov 1778 in Royal Palace, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
Adolf Prince Of DENMARK-NORWAY [Parents] was born on 25 Jan 1526 in, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia.
Sofie Princess Of HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP was born on 1 Jun 1569 in Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia.
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 Victoria of Baden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Victoria of Baden (August 7, 1862 - April 4, 1930) was the Queen consort of King Gustav V of Sweden.
Victoria was also great-granddaughter (by her paternal grandmother) of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.
She was born at the castle in Karlsruhe in Germany, and married Gustav, then Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway, on September 20, 1881.
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 Main Document - Swedish-Russian War
Gustav IV Adolf became the king of Sweden in 1796 (he ruled until 1809) as his eccentric father, "the theatre king", Gustav III had been murdered in 1792.
Gustav IV Adolf was a fierce hater of the French revolution, and he had also been reading too much of the book of revelations because he saw Napoleon as the beast in that book.
The traditional uniform of the Swedish army was in blue and yellow, but during the era of Gustav IV Adolf, the army had also been experimenting with uniforms in grey.
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 Habobygdens Släktforskarförening
Before that Gustav Adolf belonged to the parish of Habo, and Brandstorp belonged to the parish of Daretorp and Velinga.
The parish Gustav Adolf received its name from the crown prince of that time, later king Gustav IV Adolf.
Habo and Gustav Adolf formed the municipality of Habo in 1952, and Brandstorp became the third part in 1974.
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 SWEDEN.SE - Monarchy in Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gustav III's and Gustav IV Adolf's strong opposition to the French Revolution and all its underlying ideas of the division of power, constitutionalism and democracy brought them into conflict with large sections of both the nobility and the civil servants in Sweden.
This led to the murder of Gustav III in 1792, the result of a conspiracy of a group of nobles who were fanatically opposed to the King's autocratic rule.
As Prince Gustaf Adolf was killed in an air crash in 1947, his son was already Sweden's Crown Prince when his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf acceded to the throne in 1950.
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 Basfakta om Gustav III armé
Colours presented in 1772 and used until 1798 when they were replaced by colours with the monogram of Gustav IV Adolfs.
Gustav IV Adolf showed his dissatisfaction over the poor achievements of the guard regiments during the "Finnish war".
The new ones presented in 1802 probably had the monograms of Gustav IV Adolf and Sofia Magdalena.
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 WHKMLA : History of Sweden, 1792-1809
During the years of his minority, Sweden's most influential politician was GUSTAV ADOLF REUTERHOLM, a man who had spent several years abroad, partially in Paris where he had witnessed episodes in the French Revolution.
Adolf press freedom was restricted, the import of French newspaper forbidden.
In 1795 a treaty with France was signed, Sweden being the first monarchy to diplomatically recognize the French Republic; in 1796 Sweden dropped her alliance with France and the future king visited St. Petersburg, where the attempted arrangement of a marriage to Russian princess Alexandra failed.
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 Assessment. (from Gustav II Adolf) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history.
A leader of the regionalist movement in German fiction, Gustav Frenssen is remembered chiefly for his novels of peasant life.
The great Austrian symphonist Gustav Mahler was known during his lifetime primarily as an opera and orchestra conductor.
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 Additional Reading (from Gustav II Adolf) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Nils Ahnlund, Gustav Adolf the Great (1940), is a classic study of selected aspects of the reign by the leading Swedish authority.
Discussions of the king's motives and objectives for intervention in the Thirty Years' War are Michael Roberts, Essays in Swedish History (1967), which also includes studies of his significance for the art of war and of the constitutional implications of the reign, and Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of Sweden (1973).
English composer and music teacher Gustav Holst is noted for the excellence of his orchestration and the international flavor of many of his works.
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Frederika Dorothea Vilhelmina (1781-1826) Princess of Baden maried Gustav IV Adolf in 1797, exiled 1809, divorced 1812.
Queen Victoria’s uniform as Colonel in Chief of the Pomeranian Regiment of Fusiliers, 1909.
Victoria of Baden (1862-1930) married Gustav V in 1881 and shared his throne when he was crowned in 1908.
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 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837), king of Sweden, of the house Holstein-Gottorp[?], was the son of III of Sweden">Gustav III of Sweden and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and born at Stockholm on November 1, 1778.
Petersburg for the purpose of arranging a marriage between the young king and II of Russia">Catherine II’s granddaughter, the grand-duchess Alexandra.
Gustav’s prompt dismissal of the generally detested Gustaf Reuterholm[?] added still further to his popularity.
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1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier.
1809 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicated after a coup d'état.
At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
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 Namnlöst dokument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gustaf IV Adolf and Fredrika were divorced in 1812.
Because of the disaster, Gustaf IV Adolf was deposed, and the country got a new constitution.
Instead of the constitution of the Freedom time (1719-1772) where the Parliament had all the power and the Gustavian autocracy (1772-1809) the new constitution stipulated that the power should be divided between the King and the Parliament.
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 1792 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
March 16 - King of Sweden Gustav III Shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, on March 16, he expired on March 29 succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
August 13 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (d.
March 29 - King Gustav III of Sweden (assassinated) (b.
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 1837   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b.
June 20 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (b.
October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b.
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 Grand Duchy of Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
However, in 1802 as an indication of resolve to keep Finland within Sweden in face of increased Russian pressure, King Gustav IV Adolf gave the title to his new-born son, Prince Carl Gustaf, who died three years later.)
During the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia, the four Estates of occupied Finland were assembled at the Diet of Porvoo on March 29, 1809 to pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia.
The arms were granted at the burial of Gustav Vasa in 1560 and still remain the arms of the Republic of Finland.
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