Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

* 1535 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden ( d. 1621 )

* September 23 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( b. 1513 )

** St Catherine of Sweden

* September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden ( b. 1526 )

* November 1 – Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of John III of Sweden ( d. 1583 )

* September 24 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( d. 1535 )

* Queen Catherine of Sweden

Stein is one of the six patron saints of Europe, together with Saint Benedict of Nursia, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Bridget of Sweden and Saint Catherine of Siena.

His parents were Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp ( nephew of Charles XII of Sweden ), and Anna Petrovna, a daughter of Emperor Peter I and Empress Catherine I of Russia.

He was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

One of them was afterwards honored as St. Catherine of Sweden.

He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg and Catherine of Sweden.

# probably: Catherine of Sweden, born 1245, married Siegfried, Count of Anhalt

Christian descended, through both Valdemar I of Sweden and Magnus I of Sweden, from the Swedish Dynasty of Eric, and from Catherine, daughter of Inge I of Sweden, as well as from Ingrid Ylva, granddaughter of Sverker I of Sweden.

* Catherine Jagellon ( 1526 – 1583 ), wife of John III of Sweden

He was the son of Lucy Sophia Frerichs, a Manchester cotton heiress, and Count Erich Stenbock, of a distinguished Baltic German noble family with Swedish roots which rose to prominence in the service of King Gustav Vasa: Catherine Stenbock was the third and last consort of Gustav Vasa and Queen consort of Sweden between 1552 and 1560.

Maria Eleonora's brother George William was flattered by the offer of the British Crown Prince and proposed their younger sister Catherine ( 1602 – 1644 ) as a more suitable wife for the Swedish king.

* Catherine of Ymseborg, Swedish queen consort

* March 24 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint

* probable – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint ( d. 1381 )

From Naples, Armfelt began secret communications with Catherine II, arguing that she should bring about by means of a military intervention a change in the Swedish government in favour of the Gustavians.

A number of persons in the entourage of the emperor, including the grand duchess Catherine, Fessler, Karamzin, Rostopchin and the Finnish, originally Swedish general Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, the Minister State Secretary of the Grand Duchy of Finland in St Petersbourg, intrigued to involve him in a charge of treason.

Catherine is said to have written a devotional work entitled Consolation of the Soul ( in medieval Swedish Siælinna tröst, or Själens tröst in modern Swedish ), a dated copy from 1407 is still in existence.

The Russo-Swedish War of 1788 – 90, known as Gustav III's Russian war in Sweden, Gustav III's War in Finland and Catherine II's Swedish War in Russia, was fought between Sweden and Russia from June 1788 to August 1790.

* Russo-Swedish War ( 1788 – 1790 ), known as Gustav III's Russian war in Sweden, and Catherine II's Swedish War in Russia

King Eric agreed to hand over Catherine to Ivan, but the Swedish king was deposed before Catherine could be sent away.

The infusion of Polish blood into the Swedish royal lineage that begun with Catherine would cause considerable strife after her death in the context of the ongoing European wars of religion.

John and Catherine were the only Swedish monarchs to reside in the Finnish part of the Swedish realm for any length of time, and their alleged fondness for the land inspired Finnish nationalists.

This compact engaged Denmark to join with Russia in upholding the existing Swedish constitution, in return for which Czarina Catherine II undertook to adjust the Gottorp difficulty by the cession of the Gottorp portion of Holstein in exchange for the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst.

Though frequently threatened with terrible penalties by Peter the Great for his incurable vice of peculation, Apraksin, nevertheless, contrived to save his head, though not his pocket, chiefly through the mediation of the good-natured empress, Swedish born common law wife and later formal wife of Peter I, Catherine I, sole Ruling Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727.

Their daughters Catherine of Ymseborg and Benedicta of Ymseborg became pawns in marriages to gain Swedish succession after 1222, when the Sverker dynasty went extinct in male line.

Other artists who have found inspiration in Tolkien's works include Catherine Karina Chmiel, Inger Edelfeldt, Anke Eißmann, Roger Garland, Michael Hague, Tove Jansson ( of Moomin fame, illustrator of Swedish and Finnish translations of The Hobbit ), Paul Raymond Gregory, Tim Kirk, Angus McBride, Kay Miner, Billy Mosig, Colleen Doran, Jenny Dolfen and Matěj Čadil.

Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg ( Katarina in Swedish ) ( 24 September 1513 – 23 September 1535 ) was the first consort of Gustav I of Sweden and Queen of Sweden from 1531 until her death in 1535.

Catherine never learned to speak Swedish, and as her husband's German was less than perfect, they had difficulty in communicating and did not spend much time together.

Catherine Stenbock ( Swedish: Katarina Gustavsdotter Stenbock ; born at Torpa, Tranemo Municipality, Västergötland on 22 July 1535 – died at Strömsholm, Västmanland on 13 December 1621 ) was the third and last consort of King Gustav I of Sweden, and Queen consort of Sweden between 1552 and 1560.

* Katarina den stora ( Catherine The Great ) 2006

In 1543 he married Catherine ( Katarina ) Frankopan, a sister of Count Stjepan Frankopan Ozaljski (" Stephen Frankopan of Ozalj " in English ), who placed the whole of her vast estates at his disposal.

Saint Catherine of Sweden, Katarina av Vadstena or Catherine of Vadstena ( c. 1332 – 24 March 1381 ) has been called the patron saint of protection against abortion and miscarriage.

Saint Catherine's Monastery ( Greek: Monì tìs Agìas Ekaterìnis ), in Arabic دير القد ّ يسة كاترينا commonly known as Santa Katarina lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate.

* Katarina and Karin are listed here under C as Catherine.

Katarina kyrka ( Church of Catherine ) is one of the major churches in central Stockholm, Sweden.

* Katarina is listed here under C as Catherine.

Catherine ( in Swedish: Katarina Eriksdotter ) ( 12th-century ), was a Swedish princess, daughter of King Eric the Saint and his Queen Christina of Sweden.

Santa Catarina ( Portuguese meaning Saint Catherine, in Cape Verdean Creole: Santa Katarina ) is a municipality located in the northwestern and the western parts of the island of Santiago in Sotavento in Cape Verde.