Genealogie John Muijsers » Karel ix van Zweden (1550-1611)

Persoonlijke gegevens Karel ix van Zweden 

• Hij is geboren op 4 oktober 1550.
• Beroep: koning van Zweden.
• Hij is overleden op 30 oktober 1611, hij was toen 61 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Gustav i Wasa van Zweden en Margareta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud

Gezin van Karel ix van Zweden

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Anna Maria van Simmern.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Margaretha Elisabeth van Zweden  1580-1585
2. Elisabeth Sabina van Zweden  1582-1585
3. Louis van Zweden  1583-1583
4. Catherine van Zweden  1584-1638 
5. Gustav van Zweden  1587-1587
6. Maria van Zweden  1588-1589

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Christine van Sleeswijk-Holstein-Gottorp.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 22 augustus 1592 te Nyköping, hij was toen 41 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Christina van Zweden  1593-1594
2. Gustav ii Adolf van Zweden  1594-1632 
3. Maria Elisabeth van Zweden  1596-1618
4. Charles Philippe van Zweden  1601-1622

Notities over Karel ix van Zweden

Charles IX, also Carl (Swedish: Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, brother of Eric XIV and John III, and uncle of Sigismund who was king of both Sweden and Poland. By his father's will he got, by way of appanage, the Duchy of Södermanland, which included the provinces of Närke and Värmland; but he did not come into actual possession of them till after the fall of Eric and the succession to the throne of John in 1568.

The Swedish kings Eric XIV (1560–68) and Charles IX (1604–1611) took their numbers according to a fictitious History of Sweden. He was actually the third Swedish king called Charles.[1]

He came into the throne by championing the Protestant cause during the increasingly tense times of religious strife between competing sects of Christianity. In just over a decade, these would break out as the Thirty Years' War. These conflicts had already caused the dynastic squabble rooted in religious freedom that deposed his nephew and brought him to rule as king of Sweden.

His reign marked the start of the final chapter (dated 1648 by some) of both the Reformation and Counter-reformation. With his brother's death in November 1592, the throne of Sweden went to his nephew and Habsburg ally, Sigismund of Poland and Sweden. During these tense political times, Charles viewed the inheritance of the throne of Protestant Sweden by his devout Roman Catholic nephew with alarm. Thus, several years of religious controversy and discord followed.

During the period, he and the Swedish privy council ruled in Sigismund's name while he stayed in Poland. After various preliminaries, the Riksens ständer forced Sigismund to abdicate the throne to Charles IX in 1595. This eventually kicked off nearly seven decades of sporadic warfare as the two lines of the divided House of Vasa both continued to attempt to remake the union between the Polish and Swedish thrones with opposing counter-claims and dynastic wars.

Quite likely, the dynastic outcome between Sweden and Poland's house of Vasa exacerbated and radicalized the later actions of Europe's Catholic princes in the German states such as the Edict of Restitution. In fact, it worsened European politics to the abandonment or prevention of settling events by diplomacy and compromise during the vast bloodletting that was the Thirty Years' war.

He married, firstly, Anna Marie of Palatinate-Simmern (1561–1589), daughter of Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539–1583) and Elisabeth of Hesse (1539–1584). Their children were:

Margareta Elisabeth (1580–1585)
Elisabeth Sabina (1582–1585)
Louis (1583–1583)
Catherine (1584–1638), married a prince of the Palatinate Zweibrücken, becoming mother of Charles X Gustav.
Gustav (1587–1587)
Maria (1588–1589)
In 1592 he married his second wife Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573–1625), daughter of Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp (1526–1586) and Christine of Hesse (1543–1604) and first cousin of his previous wife. Their children were:

Christina (1593–1594)
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Gustav II Adolf) (1594–1632)
Maria Elizabeth (1596–1618), married her first cousin Duke John, youngest son of John III of Sweden
Charles Philip (1601–1622)
He also had a son with his mistress, Karin Nilsdotter:

Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm (1574–1650), Field Marshal

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