Sweden
Sweden was a Scandinavian kingdom based at Stockholm. In 1337 Magnus Eriksson ruled both Sweden and Norway, having inherited their crowns in 1319.
Sweden joined Denmark and Norway in the Kalmar Union in 1397. Resistance to Danish rule culminated in the Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520 and Gustav Vasa’s election in 1523; he broke with Rome. Gustavus Adolphus and his successors built a Baltic empire, but the Great Northern War of 1700 to 1721 ended its dominance. Sweden lost Finland in 1809 and entered a personal union with Norway in 1814.
Characters
- Haakon V of Norway
- Ingeborg of Norway
- Anund Gårdske
- Anund Jacob
- Birger Jarl
- Birger Magnusson of Sweden
- Blanche of Namur
- Canute I of Sweden
- Canute II of Sweden
- Charles VII of Sweden
- Emund the Old
- Eric IX of Sweden
- Erik Magnusson, Duke of Södermanland
- Eric the Victorious
- Eric X of Sweden
- Eric XI of Sweden
- Håkan the Red
- Halsten Stenkilsson
- Inge the Elder
- Inge the Younger
- John I of Sweden
- Knut Jonsson (Aspenäsätten)
- Magnus Eriksson
- Magnus I of Sweden
- Magnus II of Sweden
- Magnus Ladulås
- Olof Skötkonung
- Philip Halstensson of Sweden
- Stenkil
- Sverker the Elder
- Sverker II of Sweden
- Valdemar Birgersson of Sweden
- Valdemar Magnusson, Duke of Finland