Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

None of them is however said to have had his residence there, as the Swedish king and his retinue routinely moved between the Husbys, parts of the network of royal estates called Uppsala öd.

Gustavus Adolphus College, a Lutheran college in St. Peter, Minnesota is also named for the Swedish king.

Despite the need for an heir, Elizabeth declined to marry, despite offers from a number of suitors across Europe, including the Swedish king Erik XIV.

It may be that the two tribal names happened to be confused, which has happened, for example, in the sources about the death of the Swedish king Östen.

Diverging interests ( especially the Swedish nobility's dissatisfaction over the dominant role played by Denmark and Holstein ) gave rise to a conflict that would hamper the union in several intervals from the 1430s until its breakup in 1523 when Gustav Vasa became king of Sweden.

After Danish and Swedish troops in 1389 defeated the Swedish king, Albert of Mecklenburg, and he subsequently failed to pay the required tribute of 60, 000 silver marks within three years after his release, her position in Sweden was secured.

In the power vacuum that arose following Christopher's death ( 1448 ), Sweden elected Charles VIII king with the intent to reestablish the union under a Swedish crown.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

In the year 1620, Maria Eleonora married the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus with her mother's consent, but against the will of her brother George William, Elector of Brandenburg, who has just succeeded her father.

Elector John Sigismund was favorably inclined towards the Swedish king, but he had become very infirm after an apoplexic stroke in the autumn of 1617.

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.

The Electress Dowager maintained an attitude of reserve and even refused to grant the Swedish king a personal meeting with Maria Eleonora.

On his return to Berlin, the Electress Dowager seems to have become completely captivated by the charming Swedish king.

The alliance was sealed with the marriage of Mieszko's daughter Świętosława with the Swedish king Erik.

* 1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.

In 1220, the Swedish army led by king John I of Sweden and the bishop Karl of Linköping conquered Lihula in Rotalia in Western Estonia.

It was at once made the basis for new codes in Württemberg and Saxe-Weimar ; it was adopted in its entirety in the grand-duchy of Oldenburg ; and it was translated into Swedish by order of the king.

A story told by the thirteenth-century Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda about the origin of Lake Mälaren was probably originally about Lake Vänern: the Swedish king Gylfi promised a woman, Gefjun, as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used oxen from the land of the giants, and moreover uprooted the land and dragged it into the sea, where it became the island of Zealand.

* June 21 – Upon the death of Erik Magnusson, his claims to the Swedish throne die with him and power is restored undivided to his father, king Magnus.

This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

The brothers were in great disagreement and Frederick II negotiated a treaty with Ivan IV on August 7, 1562 in order to help his brother obtain more land and stall further Swedish advance.

One of the Mau leaders was Olaf Frederick Nelson, a half Samoan and half Swedish merchant.

Two of Abbot's melodramas, The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great ( 1817 ) and Swedish Patriotism ( 1819 ), were produced at Covent Garden.

As a result of the Swedish occupation, Kronborg was deprived of many of its most precious art works, including the richly decorated fountain in the castle courtyard, Frederick II's canopy and a number of the large ceiling paintings commissioned by Christian IV for the ballroom.

Charles Frederick, son of Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp ( a cousin of Charles XII ) and Hedvig Sophia, daughter of Charles XI of Sweden, was the Swedish heir since 1702.

In addition to the rivalries in the anti-Swedish coalition, there was an inner-Swedish rivalry between Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Frederick I of Hesse-Cassel for the Swedish throne.

Frederick I was however willing to cede the Swedish support for his rival in Holstein-Gottorp, which came under Danish control and the northern part annexed, and furthermore cede the Swedish privilege of exemption from the Sound Dues.

Taking advantage of the Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655, instead of fulfilling his vassal's duties towards the Polish Kingdom, by joining forces with the Swedes and subsequent treaties of Wehlau, Labiau, and Oliva, Elector and Duke Frederick William succeeded in revoking king of Poland's sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia in 1660.

* Sir John Frederick van Freisendorf, 1st Baronet, of Hirdech ( 1661 )-also created Friherre in the Swedish nobility, status unknown

Frederick then succeeded her on the throne, elected by the Swedish Estates.

Charles had been an authoritarian and demanding ruler ; one reason the Swedish Estates elected Frederick was because he was taken to be fairly weak, which indeed he turned out to be.

On 23 February 1748 Frederick I instituted the three Swedish royal orders of the Seraphim, of the Sword and of the North Star, the three principal Swedish orders of chivalry.

There are very few physical remainders of Frederick in Hesse today ; one of them is his large Royal Swedish paraph ( FR ) over the old door of the University of Marburg's former riding hall, now the Institute of Physical Education.

On 17 July he again landed on Zealand and besieged Copenhagen with its king Frederick III of Denmark, but Copenhagen repelled a major assault and managed to hold out long enough for the Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam to relieve the city, defeating the Swedish fleet in the Battle of the Sound on 29 October 1658.

Ingrid of Sweden ( Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta ; 28 March 1910 – 7 November 2000 ) was a Swedish princess and the queen consort of King Frederick IX of Denmark.

By the early 1630s Frederick had built a close relationship with the Swedish King Gustavus, the dominant Protestant leader in Germany.

Up until Adolf Frederick, the motto for every regent had been in Latin and Swedish ( or, as in the case of Gustav II Adolf, in German ).

During this period of diplomatic work he acquired an exceptional knowledge of the affairs of Europe, and in particular of Germany, and displayed great tact and temper in dealing with the Swedish senate, with Queen Ulrica, with King Frederick IV of Denmark and King Frederick William I of Prussia.