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    Sigismund III Vasa (20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden...
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  • have joined the Vadstena Abbey during the reign of John III of Sweden or Sigismund III Wasa, when Sweden leaned toward a Counter-Reformation, and the...
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    House of Vasa (redirect from Wasa dynasty)
    The House of Vasa or Wasa (Swedish: Vasaätten, Polish: Wazowie, Lithuanian: Vazos) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden. Its members...
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    Gunilla Bielke. Sweden's personal union with Poland under the Catholic Sigismund III Wasa in 1592–1598 resulted in a final clash between Catholicism and Protestantism...
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    not allow it to be anchored in its port. Under these circumstances, Sigismund III Wasa decided to expand the port and shipyard of Puck. In 1624–1626, seven...
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    Bethlen (Gabriel Bethlen) 1645-1648 Wladislaus IV of Poland (Władysław IV Wasa) - King of Poland 1648-1655 Charles Ferdinand Vasa (Karol Ferdynand Waza)...
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    Hogenskild Bielke (category People of the War against Sigismund)
    suspected involvement. When the king and queen visited their son Sigismund III Wasa in Reval in 1589, he and Axel Bielke was appointed to serve as regent...
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    of the libretto for the opera Gustav Wasa from 1786). It was in the foyer of the opera house that King Gustav III was assassinated. This incident became...
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    Prince Gustav of Vasa, Count of Itterburg (German: Gustav, Prinz von Wasa; 9 November 1799 at Stockholm – 4 August/5 August 1877 at Pillnitz), born Crown...
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  • be executed by Charles XI of Sweden as loyalists with the Catholic Sigismund III Wasa, and her granddaughter Ebba Bielke judged for complicity though not...
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  • to Johan Adam Banér county of Pori to Gustaf Horn county of Korsholm and Wasa to Gabriel Oxenstierna county of Salmi and Suistamo pogosta to Carl Gustaf...
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    descended from a deposed brother (Eric XIV of Sweden) and a deposed nephew (Sigismund III of Poland). Gustav Adolf's legitimate younger brothers had died years...
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    until he could own Veveří Castle. In 1830, a Swedish émigré, Prince Gustavus Wasa, son of the deposed and exiled King of Sweden, Gustav IV, bought the castle...
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    countries. In 1624, the young Prince of Poland, Ladislaus Sigismund Vasa, the eldest son of Sigismund III, embarked on a journey across Europe, as was in custom...
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    Gustav I of Sweden Giuseppe Apolloni: Gustavo Wasa King Gustav III of Sweden Daniel Auber: Gustave III Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera Nell Gwyn...
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