Charles XI of Sweden
King of Sweden from 1660 to 1697 (1655-1697)
- Fame55.9
- Momentum0.5
- Sweden rank#196
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- Fame55.9
- Momentum0.5
- Sweden rank#196
- Historical Figures rank#184
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Lived 1655–1697, aged 42Sweden
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He became king at four when his father died, spent his teens learning statecraft under governors, then at seventeen had to pick up a sword and drive Danish forces out of Sweden's newest territories. The Scanian War made him; the twenty years of peace after let him rebuild everything else.
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Charles XI inherited the Swedish throne in 1660 as a four-year-old, his father Charles X Gustav freshly dead. Governors raised him until his coronation at seventeen, when Danish troops forced him straight into the Scanian War to hold Sweden's recently won lands. He fought them off and came home to a country in disarray — finances wrecked, politics neglected, systems fraying. For the next two decades he kept the peace and overhauled nearly everything: finance, commerce, the military, courts, church structure, schools. His only son, Charles XII, inherited a well-trained army and spent it in wars…
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