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8 unusual facts about Gustav I of Sweden


Gustav I of Sweden

However, Robert Walpole, British Prime Minister at the time, believed that the play's villain was intended to represent him, and had the play banned – the first English play to be so banned under the Licensing Act 1737.

Livregementets husarer

The regiment descends directly from units set up by the Swedish king Gustav I of Sweden (Gustav Vasa) in 1536 when Sweden, as the first country in the world introduces a draft set up of voluntary riders north and south of Stockholm.

But this remained a problem and the youngest son of Gustav I of Sweden (Gustav Vasa), Charles IX of Sweden instituted a rule in 1609, when he was king, that the units had to be inspected and exercised at least monthly by their commanders.

The regiment traces its root to the Arboga meeting in 1536 when king Gustav I of Sweden (Gustav Vasa) set up the units 'The Flag of Uppland (Upplandsfanan)' and 'The Flag of Södermanland (Södermanlandsfanan)'.

Sun dog

The phenomenon quickly resulted in rumours of an omen of God's forthcoming revenge on King Gustav Vasa (1496–1560) for having introduced Protestantism during the 1520s and for being heavy-handed with his enemies allied with the Danish king.

Temmes

Population in the area became steady in the 14th century and the number of inhabitants increased in the 1550s, when Gustav I of Sweden ordered the wilderness to be populated.

Våler, Hedmark

From the late 16th century they were encouraged by Swedish king Gustav Vasa to settle in the unpopulated areas of Värmland and Solør, along the border between Norway and Sweden.

Wausa, Nebraska

By 1885 12 new families had moved into the settlement and it was decided that they would change the name to “Vasa” in honor of the Swedish king Gustaf Vasa.


Anne of Ostfriesland

Anne of Ostfriesland (Aurich, June 26, 1562 – Neuhaus upon Elbe, April 21, 1621) was the eldest daughter of Edzard II, Count of East Frisia and his wife, Katarina Vasa, daughter of Gustav I of Sweden.

Carta marina

The map was created in Rome by the Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus (1490–1557), who arrived on a diplomatic visit for the Swedish government and stayed on, likely because his brother Johannes Magnus became involved in a religious feud with King Gustav I of Sweden.

Danviksbro

Since King Gustav Vasa (1496–1560) had the water level of the lake Hammarbysjön increased by 4.8 metres, the lake emptied into Saltsjön through a small rivulet overshadowed by a simple wooden bridge and the familiar silhouette of an old mill, and for many centuries Danviken remained mostly renowned for its hospital, Danviks hospital, which the king had moved from Riddarholmen near the city.

Göran Hälsinges Gränd

When King Eric XIV's (1533–1577) was still two years old, his mother, the first consort of King Gustav Vasa Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513–1535), died unexpectedly, and as Appolonia assisted the royal family as wet nurse she was rewarded a house in the alley, later named after her son.

Johannesgränd

A small graveyard east of the church, in which excavations have unveiled remains of coffins and bones, is said to have been ravaged by King Gustav Vasa who was looking for raw material for his saltpetre production, a deed commented in the chronicles as Ej är kristeligt i väder så skjuta sina förfäder ("Not Christian is in public thus shoot/push one's ancestors").

Nobel Library

It was first accommodated in a ten-room-flat at Norra Bantorget in a building designed by Ferdinand Boberg, the so called LO-borgen today accommodating the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) but at the time called Vasaborgen ("The Castle of Vasa").

Norra Dryckesgränd

While this order, founded in the French valley Chartreuse in 1084 and introduced in Sweden by a royal land donation at Gripsholm in 1490, is known as one of the strictest of the Catholic Church, it was however thrown out of the kingdom by King Gustav Vasa in the 1520s together with many other abbeys, and it is since mostly remembered for the liqueur, Chartreuse, produced by the monks in France.

Princess Cecilia of Sweden

Cecilia of Sweden, (Swedish: Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa) (Stockholm, 16 November 1540 – Brussels, 27 January 1627), was Princess of Sweden as the daughter of King Gustav I and his second queen, Margaret Leijonhufvud, and Margravine of Baden-Rodemachern through marriage with Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern.


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