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 Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten Information
Gustaf Adolf, Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund (April 22, 1906–January 26, 1947), Prince of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten, was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife Princess Margaret of Connaught.
Princess Sibylla was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, a granddaughter of HRH Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.
Prince Gustaf Adolf was killed in a plane crash on the afternoon of January 26, 1947 at Kastrup, Denmark.
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 Station Information - Oscar I of Sweden
Oscar I (July 4, 1799 - July 8, 1859), king of Sweden and Norway, was the son of General Bernadotte, afterwards King Charles XIV of Sweden, and his wife, Eugenie Desirée Clary, afterwards Queen Desideria.
When, in August 1810, Bernadotte was elected crown prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother removed from Paris to Stockholm (June 1811).
On June 19, 1823 he married the princess Josephine, daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and granddaughter of the empress Josephine.
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 Gustaf V of Sweden Information
Gustaf himself was a descendant of the original House of Vasa, e.g of Gustaf I through both his mother Sophia of Nassau and his grandmother Josephine of Leuchtenberg.
Gustaf V was the last Swedish king to intervene directly in the politics of the country, in 1914 on the disputes over defence budgets.
Gustaf V was also the last Swedish king to be Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces between 1907 and 1939.
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 Suchmaschine
Gustaf Adolf, Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund (April 22, 1906-January 26, 1947), Prince of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten, was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife Princess Margaret of Connaught.
Gustaf Adolf is supposed to have been sympathetic towards the Nazi movement in Germany in the 1930s, an opinion which has been highly debated and criticized.
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Hermann Göring and King Gustaf V in Berlin 1939
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 Encyclopedia: History-of-Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The princes of southern and eastern Russia had to pay tribute to the Mongols, commonly called Tatars, or the Golden Horde; but in return they received charters authorizing them to act as deputies to the khans.
Through the defections of some princes, border skirmishes, and a long, inconclusive war with Lithuania that ended only in 1503, Ivan III was able to push westward, and Muscovy tripled in size under his rule.
Various semi-independent princes still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Muscovy and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs.
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 Nordic FAQ - 7 of 7 - SWEDEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gustaf Vasa encouraged the mining leading to increased demand on workers which was satisfied by internal migration to the mining districts - not the least from Finland.
The Duke becomes King Johan III and Erik, having been sent from one prison to another for nine years, is finally poisoned in 1577 after several death sentences by the National Council, however never executed due to fear of the public reaction.
Duke Karl becomes a sole regent while the young Crown Prince Gustav Adolf is underage and Armfelt is sent far away to Naples as ambassador, and 1794 in his absence sentenced as traitor to lose name, citizenship and possessions.
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 Encyclopedia: Lwów   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bolesław was born in 1308 to Trojden I of Masovia Duke of Czersk and Maria, daughter...
Transylvanian Duke George I Rákóczy, but the city was not captured.
Their principal roles were as: Holy Roman Emperors (several centuries to 1806), and rulers of Austria (as dukes 1282– 1453, archdukes 1453– 1804, and emperors 1804– 1918), Kings...
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafn828 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Prince Gustaf Adolf was killed in an air crash in Copenhagen in 1947.
Prince Carl Philip is the second eldest child of His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia.
Prince Carl Philip was confirmed in the summer of 1994 at Vadstena Church, after confirmation studies in Medevi.
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 Suchmaschine
Gustav V was born in Drottningholm Palace and at birth was created Duke of Värmland.
[4] According to Ernst Wigforss, both Gustav V and Prince Gustav Adolf attempted to persuade the Swedish government to allow the Allies to transport troops through Sweden, though this was rejected by the government because it was felt it would cause retributions from Germany.
HRH Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Skåne and later succeeded his father as HM King Gustav VI Adolf (1882-1973)
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 Nordic FAQ - 7 of 7 - SWEDEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gustaf Vasa's son, the mentally unstable Erik XIV, becomes king 1560, and in 1561 he starts Sweden's overseas conquests by capturing northern Estonia from the Teutonic Knights.
Duke Charles becomes a regent while the young crown prince Gustav Adolf is under age.
Duke Charles is elected king, and the Danish prince Christian August, who led the Norwegian government and army, was elected to crown prince of Sweden - obviously with a Nordic union planned, but the Danish king Frederik VI opposed this idea, unless he himself was elected.
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 Paras. 50-73. Carlyle, Thomas. 1909-14. Sir Walter Scott. The Harvard Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It comprised, I believe, the Duke of York—the Duke of Gordon (then Marquess of Huntly)—the Marquess of Hertford (then Lord Yarmouth)—the Earl of Fife—and Scott’s early friend, Lord Melville.
Croker,” were the two most brilliant story tellers, in their several ways, that I have ever happened to meet; they were both aware of their forte, and both exerted themselves that evening with delightful effect.
All his motions spoke strength unabated; and, though rather undersized, he had very broad shoulders, was square-made, thin-flanked, and apparently combined in his frame muscular strength and activity; the last somewhat impaired, perhaps, by years, but the first remaining in full vigor.
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 King of Sweden & Norway Oscar II 2 Kronor1897 Stockholm - (eBay item 250156787402 end time Aug-27-07 14:45:45 PDT)
He entered the navy at the age of eleven, and was appointed junior lieutenant in July 1845.
The political events which led up to the peaceful dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 could hardly have been attained but for the tact and patience of the king himself.
He declined, indeed, to permit any prince of his house to become king of Norway, but better relations between the two countries were restored before his death, which occurred at Stockholm on the December 8, 1907.
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 Sweden
HRH Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, b.
HRH Prince Sigvard, Duke of Upland (Count Bernadotte af Wisborg), b.
HRH Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Dalarna (Count Bernadotte af Wisborg), b.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When Bengt Algotsson 1353 was made duke with Halland in the west and large parts of Finland in the east as his duchy, and the Prince Håkon 1355 took over the crown of Norway, then the Crown-Prince and the State Council lost their temper.
After the rebellion in southern Götaland 1542-43 (Dackefejden) King Gustaf did his outmost to get the Commons to also accept his politics.
The western parts of the kingdom, great uninhabited woods around the sea Vänern, were colonized by skillful farmers from Savolax in Finland encouraged by the king's brother Duke Karl.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The northern upland, much of which lies north of the Arctic Circle, has rather poor soils and is the most sparsely populated region of Finland.
Manipulated by the usurper duke Karl, Finnish peasantry rises into a rebellion prompted by the worsened living conditions; after short-lived success, the poorly armed peasants are brutally defeated by the troops of Klaus Fleming, a Finnish aristocrat and regent of Finland.
Jakob Frese (1691-1729) and Gustaf Filip Creutz (1731-1785) contributed importantly to the Swedish-language poetry of the era.
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 Mum and the Sothsegger, Notes
The chough is a crowlike bird regarded as noisy and chattering, as in "Jack Upland's" rejoinder to Friar Daw's Reply.
Upland claims that Friar Daw - whose name means a chattering bird - "grounded his logic" on "cursynges and false glose, / Chidyng with blasfemie, on chyteryng as chowghes" (6ES, p.
This may imply that friars were behind parliamentary legislation authorizing friars to preach, to the detriment of parish priests and, later on, Lollards.Wyclifif and Wycliffite writers such as the author of Jack Upland denounced the expanded role of the friars in matters traditionally the preserve of the parish priest.
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 FAQ Headers
monarchy, and the German prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse is
opponents duke Johan & duke Karl, with the consequence that
Germany, and a German prince is proposed to become king of
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 Finnish Mythology
Nordic sagas related about the Kingdom of Finland and her kings who, among others, conquered the Atlantic coast of the Scandinavian peninsula, founding there a state which was named Norway after the Finnish prince, Norri, as told by Snorri Sturluson in the Edda.
Finnish nobility and castle commanders fight on the side of King Sigismund against Duke Charles in the Swedish Civil War--e.
The Russian empress, Catherine the Great, publishes an article about Russian history in which she considers Rurik, regarded as founder of Russia, to be a Finnish prince.
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 Nordic FAQ - 4 of 7 - FINLAND
The Vasa princes were taught Finnish, prince Johan was given an enlarged Turku fief as duchy, and the Finnish nobility made careers in the civil service - and in the wars with Russia.
In the national conflicts and civil wars the Finnish nobility supported the legal kings (Erik XIV and Sigismund), and not the opponents duke Johan and duke Karl, with the consequence that many lost their lands and/or their heads when duke Karl had become king Karl IX.
Manipulated by the usurper duke Karl, Finnish peasantry uprises, prompted by the worsened living conditions.
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Prince Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861)
Prince Alexander of Hesse and the Rhine (1823-1888)
Prince Alfonso of Aragon Count of Provence (1180-1209)
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 English Poetry, Second Edition Bibliography: A
The mvses welcome to the high and mightie prince Iames by the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland, defender of the Faith andc.
Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697-1742, The British General; a poem, Sacred to the Memory of his Grace John, Duke of Marlborough.
(Poems associated with William Langland), [Jacke Upland and The Reply of Friar Daw Topias, with Jack Upland's Rejoinder in] Political poems and songs relating to English history, composed during the period from the accession of Edw.
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 bluemud.org nordic-faq-part7_SWEDEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gustaf Vasa's son, the mentally unstable Erik XIV, becomes king 1560, and in
Duke Johan, who had been pardoned after the coup 1563, turns against Erik
Erik Johan Stagnelius's Neoplatonism, Esaias Tegner's and Erik Gustaf
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 California USGenWeb Unknown County Queries - 1997
Last known address was in Upland, Ca.on Silverwood St.My Family Tree dates back to 1640.
1890 Hampton, Prince Edward Island, CANADA Son of Rev. James Allan MacLean and Sarah Dingwell.
At an early age Robert moved to California, married a Dixie ----- and they had at least one son Robert.
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 bluemud.org nordic-faq-part4_FINLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
opponents duke Johan & duke Karl, with the consequence that
The civil war between duke Karl and king Sigismund led to a
Germany, and a German prince is proposed to become king of
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 Question for Scandinavians [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He aided his father-in-law, the duke of Poland, in war and took part in harrying the English coast.
1598 through 1599 CE: Finnish nobility and castle commanders fight on the side of King Sigismund against Duke Charles in the Swedish Civil War--e.
1783 through 1784 CE: The Russian empress, Catherine the Great, publishes an article about Russian history in which she considers Rurik, regarded as founder of Russia, to be a Finnish prince.
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