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  Charles XI of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles was born in the palace at Stockholm.
Sweden's weak economy didn't favour wars, even if Sweden was very successful in conflicts, conscription was hated by the peasants and mercenaries, and drained government revenue.
Charles devoted the rest of his life to the gigantic task of rehabilitating Sweden by means of a reduction, or recovery of alienated crown lands, a process which involved the examination of every title deed in the kingdom, and resulted in the complete readjustment of the nation's finances.
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 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg155
Sophia Amelia was born 24 Mar 1627/1628 in Herzberg.
Sophia of Mecklenburg- Gustrow was born 4 Sep 1557 in Wismar.
Sophia married Frederick II of Denmark and Norway King on 20 Jul 1572 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg170 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Sophia Louise was born in 1645 in Brandenburg, Germany.
Anna GYLTA was born in 1550 in Fristad, Älvsborgs län, Sweden.
Ivar NILSSON was born in 1590 in Vist, Östergötlands län, Sweden.
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 Charles XI of Sweden
Charles XI (November 24, 1655 - April 5, 1697), king of Sweden, the only son of Charles X of Sweden, and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp[?], was born in the palace at Stockholm on November 24, 1655.
Charles devoted the rest of his life to the gigantic task of rehabilitating Sweden by means of a reduction, or recovery of alienated crown lands, a process which involved the examination of every title deed in the kingdom, and resulted in the complete readjustment of the finances.
He had seven children, of whom only three survived him, a son Charles, and two daughters, Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein, and Ulrice Eleonora, who ultimately succeeded her brother on the Swedish throne.
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 35th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hedwig Fortis, Duchess of Bavaria "Edith" was born circa 862 in France.
Mieceslas III Ynglinga, Prince of the Obotrites was born 919 in Sweden.
Sophia of Sweden was born circa 921 in Sweden.
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 search.com - Charles XII of Sweden - Search.com Reference
Carl XII, Karl XII or Carolus Rex, (June 17, 1682 – November 30, 1718), the Alexander of the North, nicknamed in Turkish as Demirbaş Şarl (Charles the Habitué), was a King of Sweden from 1697 until his death in 1718.
Denmark's defeat, however, and Sweden's ensuing rise to prominence in the Baltic region was viewed suspiciously by two powerful neighbors, King August II of Poland (cousin to both Charles XII and Frederick IV of Denmark) and Peter the Great of Russia.
His death is one of countless trivial disagreements between Norway and Sweden, both sides claiming the kill.
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 Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Gottorp as the elder son of Duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp and Princess Frederika Amalia of Denmark.
He was married on 12 May 1698 with Princess Hedwig Sophia of Sweden and had in this marriage only son, Karl Friedrich.
He took part in the Great Northern War and was killed in battle of Clissow in Poland.
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 The Swedenborg Epic: Chapter 4
(Sophia Brenner was greatly admired in those days for her longwinded poems, but had a present-day eulogist written a tribute in her honor, he might have mentioned as her greatest accomplishment the mothering of seventeen children, all but two of them her own!)
January in London was like May in Sweden, with lilies and other flowers blooming in the garden of Dr. Edzardus, pastor of the Swedish church, whose home lay five miles out of town and was often visited by Emanuel and his friends.
He landed at Trelleborg, in southern Sweden, after an absence from his country of fifteen years, beaten and exhausted, but with his haughty spirit still unbroken, Charles was a stubborn man, unable to take advice and, in spite of his unquestionable bravery, he had brought disaster to his country.
www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org /ES/epic4.htm   (4173 words)

  
 Namnlöst dokument
Heir to the Danish throne in 1455, heir to the Swedish and Norwegian thrones in 1458.
King of Sweden and Norway upon the death of Carl II on 5 of February 1818.
Married on March 21, 1929 to Princess Märtha of Sweden (1901-1954), daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden and Princess Ingeborg (née Princess of Denmark).
www.warholm.nu /Kingnor.html   (3931 words)

  
 Ancestors and Family of Charles XI of Sweden von Simmern
During his minority the government was entrusted to a regency until he was 17, and although the kingdom was kept free from foreign wars, it was misgoverned.
The Swedish army and navy were unprepared for war, and Sweden lost territory, although much of it was restored by the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1679.
Charles married Ulrica Eleanor of Denmark Oldenburg, daughter of Frederick III of Denmark Oldenburg and Sophia Amalia of Brunswick, on 16 May 1680.
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Stockholm 28.7.1869 Lovisa of Sweden and Norway (Stockholm 31.10.1851 - København 20.3.1926; daughter of King Carl XV of Sweden and Norway and Louise of the Netherlands).
Oslo 21.3.1929 Märtha of Sweden (Stockholm 28.3.1901 - Oslo 5.4.1954; daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden and Ingeborg of Denmark).
Stockholm 12.6.1698 Hedviga Sophia of Sweden (Stockholm 26.6.1681 - Stockholm 12.12.1708; daughter of King Carl XI of Sweden and Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark).
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 Page3.html
Sophia, nee Doenhoff,, was fourth wife [morgantic} wife of Frederick William II [House of von Hohenzollern] (b.
Sophia Dorothea wife of Frederick William I [House of von Hohenzollern], King of Prussia.
Sophia Louisa, wife (3) of Fredrick I [House of von Hohenzollern], King "in" Prussia.
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 McPherson County, Part 5
He was born in Sweden, in 1841; was raised a farmer and came to America in 1866, settling in Chicago, Ill., where he remained four years as a stone cutter.
He was born in Sweden, December 31, 1843, and educated in several schools in Stockholm and Upsala, Sweden, graduating in 1871.
He was born in Sweden, November 15, 1844, raised on a farm, came to America in 1846 with his parents, locating in Henry County, Ill., where he lived until he came to Kansas.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/mcpherson/mcpherson-co-p5.html   (5797 words)

  
 Poland Substates
Sophia and Erich II hurried there because she saw herself as the sole heir, but the following year a war of succession broke out with various other pretenders.
Bogusław IX, she was regent during the absence of his nephew, King Erik VII of Denmark and Sweden, who had abdicated in 1438 and spend the years 1442-49 as a privateer in the Baltic Seas, until he retired to Pomerania with his partner, Cecilia and lived there until his death in 1459.
Sophia and Erik II hurried there because she saw herself as the sole heir, but the following year a war of succession broke out with various other pretenders.
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 Alexander Leopold Anthon von Ranzow
Also Dorothea Hedwig was converted to Catholicism inbetween; she resigned as an abbess and married 7 June l678 in Hildesheim Christoph von Ranzow.
Shortly after her arrival Dorothea Hedwig communicates her husband and by the way of a certain father Winandus the Pope that she is pregnant.
He rises from an ensign to be chef of the 8th company of the life battalion and finishes his eventful life on the 25th of October 1747 as general in the service of Brunswick.
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 The von Düring Clan Genealogy Page
Sophia Christina von Düring, born 1652, died in Freiburg on 3.9.1722, buried at Oederquart (Oelbild von ihr ehemals in Oerichsheil); married in 1682 to Burchard von der Decken who was born in 1646 and died 21.10.1717.
4.) Johann Christoph von Düring, born at Horneburg on 22.7.1695, christened at Tönning on 26.7.1695, died at Stockholm, Sweden on 5.1.1759, buried as a knight of the Swedish King Seraphinen-Ordens in the kingly grave at the Ritterholmskirche in Stockholm, Sweden, auf Tyresö in Södermanland/Sweden....
Hedwig Eleonora Catharina von Düring, christened at Horneburg on 8.5.1666, died at Kuhmühlen on 16.12.1701, buried at Horneburg on 3.1.1702.
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Gortz next attempted to undermine the grand alliance against Sweden by negotiating with Russia, Prussia and Saxony for the purpose of isolating Denmark, or even of turning the arms of the allies against her, a task by no means impossible in view of the strained relations between Denmark and the tsar.
He owed his extra-ordinary influence to the fact that he was the only one of Charles's advisers who believed, or pretended to believe, that Sweden was still far from exhaustion, or at any rate had a sufficient reserve of power to give support to an energetic diplomacy—Charles's own opinion, in fact.
Ostensibly, he was only the Holstein minister at Charles's court, in reality he was everything in Sweden except a Swedish subject—finance minister, plenipotentiary to foreign powers, factotum, and responsible to the king alone, though he had not a line of instructions.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=29123   (455 words)

  
 MKI Spring Newsletter 2002
Sophia was from Sweden where it became increasingly harder to marry while lacking dowries, land, and available partners.
Women in Sweden were sent to America as part of a migration culture, which enabled women to immigrate, and yet brought many of them back to Sweden after a time via a prepaid ticket.
Hedwig came to America from a part of Poland that was occupied by the Austrians at the time.
csumc.wisc.edu /mki/Newsletter/Newssp02.html   (6364 words)

  
 dammeier - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Louisa Loretta Dammeier (Henry Dammeier, Sophia Hedwig Prasse,) was born
Lydia Boedeker (Henrietta Dammeier, Sophia Hedwig Prasse,) was born
Heinrich Dammeier (Bernhard Dammeier, Sophia Hedwig Prasse,) was born
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 35th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ulfius of Denmark, Earl of Ulf was born circa 933 or 945 in Halland län (county), Sweden.
Uchtred of Northumbria, Earl of Northumbria was born 989 in Northumberland, England.
Otto von Saxony I, King of the Germans and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire "The Great" was born 23 Nov 912 in Saxony, Germany and married Dec 951.
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 Sweden | Diadem - Diamand Buttons of the Queen Luisa-Ulrika
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (Swedish: Lovisa Ulrika; German: Luise Ulrike) (1720—1782) was queen of Sweden between 1751 and 1771.
She was the daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, and was thus the sister of Friedrich II of Prussia.
Some days after Lovisa Ulrika's arrival in Sweden, the nuptials were celebrated at Drottningholm palace outside Stockholm, and soon after this event the Swedish King Fredrik I transferred the fief of Drottningholm to the bride.
www.royal-magazin.de /sweden/queen-luisa-ulrika.htm   (668 words)

  
 Frederick II of Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Frederick was born in Berlin, the son of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover and King Frederick William I.
The sudden death of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, an event dubbed the miracle of the House of Brandenburg, led to the collapse of the anti-Prussian coalition.
Hedwig\'s Cathedral, the French and German Cathedrals on the Gendarmenmarkt, and Prince Henry\'s Palace (now the site of Humboldt University).
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 Biographical Sketches Erie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Austin was united in marriage in 1878 with Clara A., daughter of Jacob and Sophia Mooney.
J.M. BRYANT, Collector thirteen years for Erie City, born in Franklin Co., N.Y., April 24, 1819, son of Philip and Sophia (Sheppard) Bryant, the former a farmer by occupation and a native of Conn., of Irish descent: the latter a native of Vt. of Scotch extraction.
He was united in marriage, May 5, 1839, to Sophia Curtis, daughter of P. Curtis, and of English descent— an amiable, Christian lady.
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 H-Net Review: Joseph F. Patrouch on Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815: The Role of the Consort
Lis Granlund, a former curator from Sweden, concentrates her contribution on Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, who, as wife of King Karl X Gustav and mother of King Karl XI, served as regent and dowager of Sweden in the late seventeenth century.
As the younger of two daughters of Duke Fredrik III of Holstein and his wife Maria Elisabeth of Saxony, Hedwig Eleonora represents both physically and politically the attempts by the imperial duchy of Holstein to separate itself from the influence of the Danish kings by building close ties to Sweden instead.
Brought up at the court of Electress Sophia Charlotte at Lutzenburg (later Charlottenburg) outside of Berlin, Caroline was a keen observer of the accession of the elector to the title of "King in Prussia" as Friedrich I in 1701 (p.
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 Der Kreis Wirsitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Godparents: A Waloch and Anna Stanigowa Waskowiak 2 Hedwig Waloch born 28 Sept 1789 in Czaycze.
Child #2 of Hedwig Waloch and Valentine Hasz: Stanislaus Hosz married Magdalena Mastkowna on 25 Nov. 1800 in Tlukom.
Godparents: Valentinus Hausz and Sophia Walochowna nee Chrzanowna Eva died 2 March 1783 in Tlukom 2.Regina Waloch baptized on 4 March 1777.Godparents: Franciscus Beuk and Barbara Nowak.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 51   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hohenzollern, Marie Hedwig of Prussia, Princess of Prussia, b.
Holstein-Gottorp, Charles XIII of Sweden, King of Sweden, b.
Holstein-Gottorp, Gustaf III of Sweden of, King of Sweden, b.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /public/genealogy/royal/gedx51.html   (724 words)

  
 Saul's 32 Gen - tobg63 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Mstislav I (Harald) (Harold of Kiev), Grand Duke of Kiev was born in 1076 in Kiev, Ukraine.
He married Kristina Ingesdottir of Sweden in 1095 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
Kristina Ingesdottir of Sweden was born about 1078 in Uppsala, Sweden.
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 Women in power 1640-1670
She was daughter of Lukian Stepanovich Streshnev and Princess Anna Konstantinovna Volkonskaya, she was mother of 10 children and she lived (1608-45).
She was widow of Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve til Vindinge (1615-45), son of Karen Andersdatter and Christian 4, who was given the fief Kronborg for life in 1641, and apparently took over as acting fiefholder of Hven from his mother in 1640.
When she married Prince Wilhelm Christoph von Hessen-Homburg (1625-81) in 1650, her father transferred and Administrative Unit and Fief of Schloss Bingenheim, and as her husband preferred Bingenheim for Homburg he was mainly known as the Landgrave zu Bingenheim, since his younger brother, Friederich II succeeded their father, Friederich I as Landgrave of Homburg.
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