Gustave II Adolphe of Sweden

Gustave II Adolphe (Gustav II Adolf) known as Large the or the lion of North is a king of Sweden born the December 9th 1594 with Stockholm and dead killed at the time of the of Lützen the November 6th 1632 battles.

It was wire of Christine de Holstein-Gottorp and Charles IX of Sweden ( Karl IX ) to which it succeeded in 1611 the sixteen years age. It took as chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, count de Soedermoere and great man of State and continued the war against the Denmark until the treaty of Knaered in 1613 and against the Russia with which it signed the treaty of Stolbova.

Gustave founded Gothenburg and several small towns, as well as the University of Tartu in Estonia. At that time, the largest cities in Sweden were Riga, Stockholm, and Tallinn (Reval).

After several victorious but nondecisive forwardings on the Polish territory it imposed to the king Sigismond III of Poland the truce of Altmark in 1629, helped in that by Charnacé, ambassador of France, in exchange of territories and economic advantages. After the conquest of the Baltic provinces in 1630, it answered the calls of the German Protestants while negotiating with France (Traité of Bärwald of January 23rd 1631 which ensures not only one political support to him but also an important financial aid).

Sweden begins its participation in the Guerre Thirty Year old. Its army, well trained and equipped (see Hakkapélite) sweeps the troops of the Emperor and go down until in the Danube sowing ruin and desolation everywhere, in spite of the recommendations of Gustave-Adolphe who wanted to be lenient and magnanime. This large king with the so short career continued the work of Gustave I {{er}} of Sweden ( Gustav Vasa ) and of his father.

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See too

  • List of the kings de Suède
  • War Thirty Year old

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