Karl XII. von Schweden (1682-1718)
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- Name (English)
- Karl XII. von Schweden
- Short name
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Year of birth
- 1682
- Year of death
- 1718
- Short Description
- "Charles XII, sometimes Carl (Swedish: Karl XII) or Latinized to Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was the King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of Wittelsbach. Charles was the only surviving son of Charles XI and Ulrika Eleonora the Elder. He assumed power, after a seven-month caretaker government, at the age of fifteen.
In 1700, a triple alliance of Denmark–Norway, Saxony–Poland–Lithuania and Russia launched a threefold attack on the Swedish protectorate of Holstein-Gottorp and provinces of Livonia and Ingria, aiming to draw advantage as the Swedish Empire was unaligned and ruled by a young and inexperienced king, thus initiating the Great Northern War. Leading the Swedish army against the alliance Charles won multiple victories despite being usually significantly outnumbered. A major victory over a Russian army some three times the size in 1700 at the Battle of Narva compelled Peter the Great to sue for peace which Charles then rejected. By 1706 Charles, now 24 years old, had forced all of his foes into submission including, in that year, a decisively devastating victory by Swedish forces under general Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld over a combined army of Saxony and Russia at the Battle of Fraustadt. Russia was now the sole remaining hostile power." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.11.2019) - Entity Encoding
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Medaille von Anton Meybusch auf die Erziehung des schwedischen Erbprinzen Karl XII., 1689
Die Erziehung in adeligen...
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Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart - CC BY-SA -
Medaille von Philipp Heinrich Müller auf König Karl XII. von Schweden und seinen Sieg über die russische Armee bei Narva, 1700
Der Große Nordische Krieg...
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Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart - CC BY-SA -
Porträt Karl XII., König von Schweden (1682-1718)
Porträt von Karl XII. Der...
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Image: Stiftung Händelhaus, Halle - CC BY-NC-SA -
Porträt Karl XII., König von Schweden (1682-1718)
Porträt von Karl XII., König...
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Image: Stiftung Händelhaus, Halle - CC BY-NC-SA -
Medaille auf den Sieg über Polen und Sachsen bei Dunamünde
Die Medaille zeigt König Karl...
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Image: Museum August Kestner - CC BY-NC-SA
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