# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-xiii-of-sweden
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:48:52.506Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-xiii-of-sweden"
name: "Charles XIII of Sweden"
slug: "charles-xiii-of-sweden"
description: "A Swedish king who ruled under a numerically impossible name — the thirteenth Charles when he was actually the seventh — inheriting a throne at sixty after his brother's assassination and gaining a second kingdom in Norway five years before death."
tagline: "King of Sweden (1809-1818) and King of Norway (1814-1818)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_XIII_of_Sweden.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1748-10-07"
deathDate: "1818-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.099258539329533
  historical:           23.65227466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 7 October 1748, the second son of King Adolf Frederick and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great. He spent sixty years as a prince, living through his older brother Gustav III's reign until assassination opened the succession in 1809. He took the throne carrying forward a numbering error: Charles IX had inflated his numeral centuries earlier after reading fake Swedish history, locking every successor into the wrong count. At sixty-five he became Norway's king as well in 1814, reigning there as Charles II. He died 5 February 1818, having ruled both kingdoms from an age when most men retire.