Charles XIII of Sweden
King of Sweden (1809-1818) and King of Norway (1814-1818)
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Lived 1748–1818, aged 70Sweden
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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.
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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 wh…
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