Charles XIV John of Sweden
King of Sweden and Norway between 1818–1844. Prince of Ponte Corvo 1806–1810 and French field marshal (1763–1844)
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A French marshal who fought for Napoleon became king of Sweden — and defeated his former emperor. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte's improbable career arc bent from the battlefields of Austerlitz to the throne of Scandinavia, where he founded a dynasty that still reigns.
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Born in Pau in 1763, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte joined the French Royal Army at seventeen and rose through Revolutionary fervor to brigadier general by 1794. His turbulent relationship with Napoleon didn't prevent a marshal's baton or the title Prince of Pontecorvo after Austerlitz. Then in 1810 came the strangest turn: a Swedish courtier campaigned to make this French general heir to childless Charles XIII, and the Riksdag agreed. Renamed Charles John, he became regent and de facto ruler almost immediately. When Napoleon invaded Swedish Pomerania in 1812, the former marshal engineered the Sixth…
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