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    Poland in 1672. The Vasa dynasty descended from a fourteenth century Swedish noble family, tracing agnatic kinship to Nils Kettilsson (Vasa) (died 1378), fogde...
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    became a hereditary monarchy in the 16th century during the reign of Gustav Vasa, though virtually all monarchs before that belonged to a limited and small...
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  • research results resulted in Gustav Vasa's son styling himself as Eric XIV, although his father disapproved. Article Nils Ragvaldsson from the Nordisk Familjebok...
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    noble family named Store are unverified.) Magnus was selected by Gustav I Vasa to become Archbishop, in 1523. As he was about to travel to Rome to be ordained...
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    Uppsala. In 1531, Laurentius Petri was chosen by King Gustav I of Sweden (Vasa) to be archbishop, taking that privilege from the pope and in effect making...
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    and his mother was Kristina Kristiernsdotter Vasa, daughter of Lord High Justiciar Kristiern Nilsson Vasa. He studied at the University of Leipzig and...
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  • being the last Archbishop of Uppsala to have been born before King Gustav Vasa decreed Lutheranism to be the official state religion of the Kingdom of Sweden...
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  • services after his mission to Rome in 1524, on behalf of Gustav I of Sweden (Vasa), to procure the appointment of Olaus Magnus' brother Johannes Magnus as...
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  • Angermannus In Swedish Nordisk familjebok In Swedish Bengt Ankarloo, Satans raseri Herman Lindqvist, Historien om Sverige, Gustav Vasa och hans söner...
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    Sweden. He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main Lutheran reformers of Sweden. They are commemorated...
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    because of demands that professors to sign a petition supporting Sigismund III Vasa as king of Sweden. However, in 1604, his Protestant uncle Duke Charles was...
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    considered religion as an important part of their daily life. King Gustav Vasa instigated the Church of Sweden in 1536 during his reign as King of Sweden...
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  • he built a permanent house for the archbishop (demolished during Gustav Vasa's liberation war in 1522). Archbishop of Uppsala Nordisk familjebok, in Swedish...
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