Charles X Gustave of Sweden

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Charles X Gustave ( Karl X Gustav ) king of Sweden, born the November 8th 1622 with the castle of Nyköping, deceased the February 13rd 1660 with Gothenburg. It succeeds the queen Christina and reigns of 1654 with 1660. Wanting to unify its country, it starts the First War of North.

His/her father is the Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Jean Casimir and his Catherine mother the oldest daughter of Charles IX.

He assembled on the throne in 1654, after the abdication of Christine, his cousin. Its first task as a king is to restore finances of its kingdom, it imposes the " then; Reduction " , obligation for the noble ones to return certain grounds to the Crown and to pay an annual tax. It turned initially its weapons against the Polish (1655), of which the king, Jean II Casimir Vasa, protested against its advent, gained celebrates it battle of Warsaw, which lasted three days (1656), and seized all the Poland in less than three months. The following year, it had to fight the king of Denmark. The February 11th 1658 with an army of 9.000 riders and 3.000 infantrymen, it crosses to foot the Grand Belt then exceptionally entirely cold. : it quickly subjected the Holstein, the Slesvig and the Jutland, led its army the January 30th 1658 on the ices of the Petit Belt, confusion the Fyn, crossed to foot the sea of island to island, and thus arrived in the island of Zeeland.

Terror was spread at once in Copenhagen taken with deprived and directly threatened. The king of Denmark-Norway Frederic III is forced to sign the Traité of Roskilde (1658) by which Sweden acquires many territories of the Scandinavian peninsula (of which the Scanie and several other provinces which remained since with the Sweden). Pretexting that the treaty had not been carried out, Charles, which ambitionnait the empire of North, reappeared soon in front of Copenhagen and delivered the attack but it was pushed back. It had converted the seat into blockade and prepared a new attack when it died suddenly, in 1660, with Gothenbourg.

Sources

Charles X Gustav. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium

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