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| | ipedia.com: Charles XI of Sweden Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Charles was born in the palace at Stockholm. |
| | On May 6, 1680, he had married Ulrike Eleonora (1656 - 1693), daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (1609-1670) and whose death in July 1693 produced a shock from which Charles would never recover. |
| | He had seven children, of whom only three survived him, a son Charles, and two daughters, Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp and grandmother of Tsar Peter III, and Ulrike Eleonora, who ultimately succeeded her brother on the Swedish throne. |
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