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| Olof Skotkonung of Sweden |
His lover was:
Edla of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Venden (976-1008)
Slav concubine
"Edla was princess of the Wends from Mecklenburg, the daughter of Prince Mieceslas and his wife Sophia. She was taken captive by Olaf II Skotkonnung, King of Sweden (980 – 1022) and became his mistress. Her children by Olaf were raised in the royal household, and included: Ealdgyth of Sweden (c995 – c1028). She was married firstly to the Viking jarl Sigehere, and secondly to the English king, Edmund II Ironside (984 – 1016), leaving descendants from her second marriage; Edmund the Old (c998 – 1056). He became King of Sweden, and left descendants; Astrid of Sweden (c1005 – c1050). She became first wife of Olaf II (995 – 1030), King of Norway. Through her eldest daughter Edla was the great-grandmother of St Margaret, queen of Scotland, and ancestress through the Plantagenets of all the successive ruling dynasties of Great Britain, as well as ancestress of many of the royal houses of Europe." (A Bit of History)
"Edla was princess of the Wends from Mecklenburg, the daughter of Prince Mieceslas and his wife Sophia. She was taken captive by Olaf II Skotkonnung, King of Sweden (980 – 1022) and became his mistress. Her children by Olaf were raised in the royal household, and included: Ealdgyth of Sweden (c995 – c1028). She was married firstly to the Viking jarl Sigehere, and secondly to the English king, Edmund II Ironside (984 – 1016), leaving descendants from her second marriage; Edmund the Old (c998 – 1056). He became King of Sweden, and left descendants; Astrid of Sweden (c1005 – c1050). She became first wife of Olaf II (995 – 1030), King of Norway. Through her eldest daughter Edla was the great-grandmother of St Margaret, queen of Scotland, and ancestress through the Plantagenets of all the successive ruling dynasties of Great Britain, as well as ancestress of many of the royal houses of Europe." (A Bit of History)
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| Karl VIII of Sweden |
Son of: Knut Tordsson Bonde & Margareta Karlsdotter.
Husband of:
1. Birgitta Turesdotter Bielke (d.1436), mar 1428
2. Katarina Karlsdotter (d.1450), mar 1438
3. Kristina Abrahamsdotter.
His lover was:
Kristina Abrahamsdotter. (1432-1492)
" . . . In his last moments he married his mistress, Christina, daughter of the captain in the Castle of Rosenberg, for the purpose of legitimising a son he had by her. But no further notice was taken of this union, contracted against the advice of his council, and the son lived and died in obscurity. The burial of the King at Riddarsholm, one of the Stockholm islets, was perhaps the result of his wish to lie in a spot where the wife of his dying hours could join him." (Women of Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Vol 1: 213)
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| Erik XIV of Sweden |
Son of: Gustav I Vasa of Sweden & Katharina von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
Husband of: Karin Mansdotter. mar 1568.
"The death of Gustav Vasa placed upon the throne of Sweden one of the most remarkable sovereigns ever to occupy it. Erik XIV was twenty-seven when he succeeded his father: a man in the full tide of vigour, stately and splendid to see; glittering with natural genius and acquired accomplishments; not unequal, as it seemed, to the high destiny of Elizabeth's hand. About his father there had always clung a tang of provincialism; but Erik could bear the scrutiny of fellow-monarchs with credit, if not quite with full assurance. To the grandezza of a great sovereign he united the polite arts prescribed by Castiglione. He had Latin at his command, fluent, elegant and pure; his modern languages included French, Spanish, Italian and Finnish, as well as German. He was well-versed in treatises of geography, and bought Mercator's maps; well-read in history, not least in that of Commines; interested in technological devices and innovations of all sorts, a collector of strange birds and beasts, an ammateur of gardening, a man cunning in the craft of the apiarist. To all the arts he gave his patronage: Vitruvius formed his taste in architecture; he could draw, he could etech; he was a skilled performer on the lute, and as a composer he might certainly stand comparison with Elizabeth's father. With him the culture of the Renaissance at last won a footing in Sweden. Unlike Gustav Vasa, Erik had a mind which turned naturally to the abstract, the theoretical, the logical, the speculative: he had a clear appreciation of theological distinctions, for which his father had cared nothing; he well understood the relevance of the precepts of Roman law to the contemporary political situation; and he seems at least to have had some notion of the quantity theory of money. Machiavelli not only furnished him with a vademecum to the profession of kingship, but also directed his attention to the theoretical study of war, in which he was himself to be so notable an innovator. He had the gift of words which was the common heritage of all his house; but his speeches---in contrast to his father's pungent, unstudied outpourings---conformed to the classic rules of rhetoric, just as his personal and political problems fell habitually, in his own mind, into syllogistic form. And it was not the least of his accomplishments that he was full of the precise learning and difficult techniques of astrology: it was a passion which held him throughout life; and it may perhaps have contributed something to his fall." (The Early Vasas: 199)
Marriage a matter of real urgency.
"By 1567, indeed, marriage had become a matter of real urgency; for by now Erik was thirty-four. A succession of casual mistresses, a small brood of royal bastards, gave his conscience twinges which recurred with increasing frequency as the years went by; and dynastically it was evident that the situation called for speedy action. Johan had put himself out of the running; Magnus was intermittently insane; only Karl remained. Erik had certainly been very unlucky in his attempts to find a wife: so unlucky, that the suspicion was beginning to take root that his repeated failures were no accident. Was it not possible, perhaps, that successive negotiations had been wrecked by the agents to whom he had entrusted them? that the aristocracy were deliberately spoiling his matrimonial chances in order to ensure that he had no legitimate heir? It occurred to him the Johan would hardly have turned rebel without encouragement. What more likely than that he had been egged on to treason by his noble relatives, in order to compass his destruction? It had been a crisis over Johan's rebellion, moreover, that had pushed Magnus over the brink of insanity: at one stroke two members of the royal house had been eliminated as potential successors. It was characteristic of Erik that he should forget how large a share of the responsibility for his misfortunes lay at his own door. He had certainly made success more difficult that it need have been. He had been too clever in trying to combine marriage with political advantage. He defeated himself by attempting to keep too many projects in the air at once. He was not content to take any suitable healthy princess, irrespective of her personal charms. In this matter his standards were exacting: in 1561 he had told a Prussian diplomat that if it were at all possible he wanted to see his bride before committing himself, having no wish to share the unhappy experiences of Henry VIII. Nor was he prepared to be satisfied with the daughter of a petty German prince: as hereditary king he was looking---in the first instance at all events---for someone better than his mother. All this left him with a range of choice which was not wide; and it was natural to consider whether, if Europe failed to provide a queen, he might not be forced to look for one at home, as his father had done before him. But his father's example seemed rather a warning than an encouragement. The Leijonhufvuds and the Stenbocks, he feld, had had their consideration dangerously enhanced by their marriage into the Vasa family. The last thing that he desired was to stengthen the ring of high nobility on the steps of the throne, and so put the fate of the dynasty into the hands of a close aristocratic clique. Thus the problem of Erik's marriage became a major political question for the county, and an obsession with Erik himself. Repeatedly he consulted riksdag and rad about it, seeking their endorsement of his projects, extracting from them undertakings to accept his ultimate choice, wherever it might fall. Already in 1561, when the riksdag gave its blessing to the English venture, it also gave a promise to acquiesce in his marriage with any of his subjects, of whatever rank: it was an assurance which was to be repeated in 1561 by the Clergy, and in 1566 by all the lower Estates. If a royal or princely bride was not available, no matter; he would turn elsewhere: his rank sufficed to raise any woman above her fellow subjects. Did not the rad advise him in January 1565 that if he was not to marry beneath him only the Emperor's daughter would serve? It was true that they had also urged him, if he should decide to seek a wife at home, to choose from the nobility; but that was no more than he had expected---and feared. It seemed obvious that they wanted to manoeuvre him into a position where he would have no option but to take the daughter of some native magnate; and if they failed in that, to ensure the extinction of the Vasa line. At the great winter market at Uppsala in February 1565 Erik for the first time publicly expressed is belief in the existence of an aristocratic plot against the dynasty: it was a bogey which was to haunt his successors for half a century. Already, perhaps, he had made up his mind that if a foreign marriage should elude him, it would not be to the aristocracy that he would turn for his consort." (The Early Vasas: 227)
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| Erik XIV of Sweden @Wikipedia |
His lovers were:
1) Agda Persdotter. (fl.1565)
Lover in 1558-1561, 1563-1565.
Swedish royal mistressDaughter of: Peder Klementsson, a wealthy merchant
Wife of:
1. Joakim Eriksson Fleming (d.1563), Swedish aristocrat, mar 1561
2. Christoffer Olsson Strale av Sjoared, Sheriff of Stegeborg, mar 1565.
Natural offspring:
1. Virginia Eriksdotter (1559-1633)
2. Constantia Eriksdotter (1560-1649)
3. Lucretia Eriksdotter (1564-1574)
" . . . She was described as a great beauty, and was called Charitas. She became the mistress of Eric during his time as a crown prince, and is the first of his recorded mistresses. She was a center of his court at Kalmar Castle in 1558, where a chamber, Agdas kammare, (= "The Agda Chamber") is still named after her. Their relationship continued after he became king in 1560." (Wikipedia)
In 1561, she was married to the noble Joakim Fleming and given the estate Eknaholm outside Växjö, which had belonged to a monastery. The relationship with Eric ended, and resumed only after she became a widow in 1563. The relationship was not exclusive, as Eric had a large number of other mistresses; during the period 1561-65, Anna Larsdotter, Karin Jacobsdotter, Karin Pedersdotter, Sigrid Nilsdotter, Doredi Valentinsdotter and the more anonymous Britta and Ingrid were all listed as the King's mistresses, but Agda was his main mistress. The position of these women was only semi-official.
Wife of:
1. Joakim Eriksson Fleming (d.1563), Swedish aristocrat, mar 1561
2. Christoffer Olsson Strale av Sjoared, Sheriff of Stegeborg, mar 1565.
Natural offspring:
1. Virginia Eriksdotter (1559-1633)
2. Constantia Eriksdotter (1560-1649)
3. Lucretia Eriksdotter (1564-1574)
" . . . She was described as a great beauty, and was called Charitas. She became the mistress of Eric during his time as a crown prince, and is the first of his recorded mistresses. She was a center of his court at Kalmar Castle in 1558, where a chamber, Agdas kammare, (= "The Agda Chamber") is still named after her. Their relationship continued after he became king in 1560." (Wikipedia)
In 1561, she was married to the noble Joakim Fleming and given the estate Eknaholm outside Växjö, which had belonged to a monastery. The relationship with Eric ended, and resumed only after she became a widow in 1563. The relationship was not exclusive, as Eric had a large number of other mistresses; during the period 1561-65, Anna Larsdotter, Karin Jacobsdotter, Karin Pedersdotter, Sigrid Nilsdotter, Doredi Valentinsdotter and the more anonymous Britta and Ingrid were all listed as the King's mistresses, but Agda was his main mistress. The position of these women was only semi-official.
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| Kalmar Castle, Sweden |
In 1557-1569, Kalmar Castle was the residence of King Erik XIV during his time as Duke of Kalmar and Konoberg. (Wikipedia)
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| Kalmar Castle |
Royal mistress Agda
was the centre of
Erik XIV of Sweden's court
2) Anna Larsdotter.
3) Britta.
4) Doredi Valentinsdotter.
5) Ingerd.
6) Karin Jacobsdotter.
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| Karin Mansdotter |
7) Karin Mansdotter. (1539-1596)
Queen of Sweden
Lover in 1565.
And he loved her deeply, his only trusted confidante.
"Under circumstances that would have been difficult for even a strong and stable personality to handle, Erik turned to his only trusted confidante. This was Karin Mansdotter, his latest mistress. She had been with him for two years. The daughter of a prison official and former barmaid at an inn, she was kind, good-humored, good-hearted, and possessed a good deal of common sense. She was the only one who could deal with Erik's fits of depression and he loved her deeply. He was tormented still more because he wanted to make Karin his wife." (Warrior Kings of Sweden: 74)
" . . . Early in 11565 he had taken as his new mistress a certain Karin Mansdotter. She was of peasant origin; her father had been a gaoler; and she herself seems to have served as a barmaid at an inn. She was a woman of gentle disposition, good heart, good humour, and sound sense, and she was one of the few persons to have any influence with Erik when the black fit was on him. He was deeply in love with her; and in the first half of 1567, on top of all his other cares and obsessions, he was wrestling with the problem of whether he could risk marrying her." (The Early Vasas: 235)
From mistress to the king's wife.
"By January 1568 Erik had recovered his health and now not only resumed control of the government . . . but also led the Swedish army successfully against the Danes. The king's illness and even his violence might be accepted as being in the nature of things, but old conflicts were still not resolved. Furthermore, at the end of his period of insanity Erik had married his beautiful young mistress, Karin Mansdotter, who in January 1568 bore him a son. The marriage was a new affront to the aristocracy, and the son was a threat to Johan's hopes for succession." (Sweden: the Nation's History: 143)
The first of rebellious kings who married a commoner.
"At the bottom of the pile were monarchs' marriages to commoners, which were thought to represent the most severe infringement of the imperative of status equivalence. For this reason the number of such marriages remained very low. Only three rulers in my sample managed to legally marry a commoner between 1500 and 1800. Two of these cases fell upon kings and one upon a crown prince. The first of these rebellious kings was Erik XIV of Sweden (f.1560-68), who in 1567 married a commoner, Katarina Mansdotter. The king had made persistent efforts in several royal courts to negotiate a marriage contract, but these negotiations broke down one after another. Katarina, a prison warden's daughter, was said to be unusually beautiful (Sundberg 2004, 45-6) and only 14 when she met the king. She served as a maid in a house the king used to visit. When the king began to show an interest in Katarina, he had her installed as a chambermaid for his half-sister Elisabet. Within a few months, Katarina was his mistress, but it was widely thought she would remain just one more in a string of the king's mistresses. However, due to the failure of his marriage intentions in European courts, Erik finally decided to wed Katarina, against the will of the Council of Estates, which recommended a royal match or at least marriage to a domestic noblewoman, a choice his father, Gustav I Vasa, had made twice. Erik XIV married Katarina with simple ceremonies in 1567 and one year later with solemn ceremonies, followed by her coronation the next day (Rangstrom 2010, 57-71). Because Erik and Katarina were far from status equals, the community in the king's vicinity reacted. To demonstrate their disapproval of this mismatch, many of those who were invited to the wedding ceremony declined to attend. Non-attendance was particularly high from German principalities and the highest domestic aristocracy. Afterwards, in 1582, a law was issued which stated that the heir to the throne cannot marry a non-noble (ofralse person). Any heir who does so will lose their right to the crown (Tegenborg Falkdalen 2010, 141-4)." (Families, Status and Dynasties, 1600-2000: 44)
The politics of keeping a mistress.
"Eric XIV must have been well aware that his treatment of Nils Sture was an outrage which the whole nobility of Sweden would resent. Moreover he had offended the aristocracy in another way. Instead of seeking a bride from among them, as his father had twice done, he married, about this time, the daughter of a common soldier, Karin or Kitty, Mansdotter. Eric first made the acquaintance of this young and beautiful girl sometime between 1561 and 1564. In the beginning of 1565 she was received at court as his mistress, and in 1566 bore him a daughter. The king had already requested both the Riksdag and the Rad to allow him to marry whomsoever he would, since all his matrimonial negotiations with foreign princesses had come to nothing. In this request both the Rad and the Riksdag had acquiesced; but the Rad, consisting as it did of the magnates of Sweden, was naturally more jealous of the royal dignity, and added the proviso that his Majesty should not look lower than the nobility for a consort. Eric, who was determined to make Karin queen of Sweden, was greatly incensed by the Rad's suggestion, which he regarded as little short of treason. . . ." (Scandinavia: A Political History of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1513 to 1900: 120)
Affair's end & aftermath.
"On both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia, this queen - known as Kaarina Maununtytär in Finnish and Karin Månsdotter in Swedish - is regarded as one of the most interesting personages in Swedish history. The rise of the low-born Kaarina Maununtytär to the position of queen was one of many reasons why Eric XIV and his heirs were forced to forfeit the throne. Having lost her crown, the young queen was sent to Finland, where she lived until the end of her life at Liuksiala Manor at Kangasala. She is buried in Turku Cathedral." (National Biography of Finland)
"Under circumstances that would have been difficult for even a strong and stable personality to handle, Erik turned to his only trusted confidante. This was Karin Mansdotter, his latest mistress. She had been with him for two years. The daughter of a prison official and former barmaid at an inn, she was kind, good-humored, good-hearted, and possessed a good deal of common sense. She was the only one who could deal with Erik's fits of depression and he loved her deeply. He was tormented still more because he wanted to make Karin his wife." (Warrior Kings of Sweden: 74)
" . . . Early in 11565 he had taken as his new mistress a certain Karin Mansdotter. She was of peasant origin; her father had been a gaoler; and she herself seems to have served as a barmaid at an inn. She was a woman of gentle disposition, good heart, good humour, and sound sense, and she was one of the few persons to have any influence with Erik when the black fit was on him. He was deeply in love with her; and in the first half of 1567, on top of all his other cares and obsessions, he was wrestling with the problem of whether he could risk marrying her." (The Early Vasas: 235)
From mistress to the king's wife.
"By January 1568 Erik had recovered his health and now not only resumed control of the government . . . but also led the Swedish army successfully against the Danes. The king's illness and even his violence might be accepted as being in the nature of things, but old conflicts were still not resolved. Furthermore, at the end of his period of insanity Erik had married his beautiful young mistress, Karin Mansdotter, who in January 1568 bore him a son. The marriage was a new affront to the aristocracy, and the son was a threat to Johan's hopes for succession." (Sweden: the Nation's History: 143)
The first of rebellious kings who married a commoner.
"At the bottom of the pile were monarchs' marriages to commoners, which were thought to represent the most severe infringement of the imperative of status equivalence. For this reason the number of such marriages remained very low. Only three rulers in my sample managed to legally marry a commoner between 1500 and 1800. Two of these cases fell upon kings and one upon a crown prince. The first of these rebellious kings was Erik XIV of Sweden (f.1560-68), who in 1567 married a commoner, Katarina Mansdotter. The king had made persistent efforts in several royal courts to negotiate a marriage contract, but these negotiations broke down one after another. Katarina, a prison warden's daughter, was said to be unusually beautiful (Sundberg 2004, 45-6) and only 14 when she met the king. She served as a maid in a house the king used to visit. When the king began to show an interest in Katarina, he had her installed as a chambermaid for his half-sister Elisabet. Within a few months, Katarina was his mistress, but it was widely thought she would remain just one more in a string of the king's mistresses. However, due to the failure of his marriage intentions in European courts, Erik finally decided to wed Katarina, against the will of the Council of Estates, which recommended a royal match or at least marriage to a domestic noblewoman, a choice his father, Gustav I Vasa, had made twice. Erik XIV married Katarina with simple ceremonies in 1567 and one year later with solemn ceremonies, followed by her coronation the next day (Rangstrom 2010, 57-71). Because Erik and Katarina were far from status equals, the community in the king's vicinity reacted. To demonstrate their disapproval of this mismatch, many of those who were invited to the wedding ceremony declined to attend. Non-attendance was particularly high from German principalities and the highest domestic aristocracy. Afterwards, in 1582, a law was issued which stated that the heir to the throne cannot marry a non-noble (ofralse person). Any heir who does so will lose their right to the crown (Tegenborg Falkdalen 2010, 141-4)." (Families, Status and Dynasties, 1600-2000: 44)
The politics of keeping a mistress.
"Eric XIV must have been well aware that his treatment of Nils Sture was an outrage which the whole nobility of Sweden would resent. Moreover he had offended the aristocracy in another way. Instead of seeking a bride from among them, as his father had twice done, he married, about this time, the daughter of a common soldier, Karin or Kitty, Mansdotter. Eric first made the acquaintance of this young and beautiful girl sometime between 1561 and 1564. In the beginning of 1565 she was received at court as his mistress, and in 1566 bore him a daughter. The king had already requested both the Riksdag and the Rad to allow him to marry whomsoever he would, since all his matrimonial negotiations with foreign princesses had come to nothing. In this request both the Rad and the Riksdag had acquiesced; but the Rad, consisting as it did of the magnates of Sweden, was naturally more jealous of the royal dignity, and added the proviso that his Majesty should not look lower than the nobility for a consort. Eric, who was determined to make Karin queen of Sweden, was greatly incensed by the Rad's suggestion, which he regarded as little short of treason. . . ." (Scandinavia: A Political History of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1513 to 1900: 120)
Affair's end & aftermath.
"On both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia, this queen - known as Kaarina Maununtytär in Finnish and Karin Månsdotter in Swedish - is regarded as one of the most interesting personages in Swedish history. The rise of the low-born Kaarina Maununtytär to the position of queen was one of many reasons why Eric XIV and his heirs were forced to forfeit the throne. Having lost her crown, the young queen was sent to Finland, where she lived until the end of her life at Liuksiala Manor at Kangasala. She is buried in Turku Cathedral." (National Biography of Finland)
8) Karin Pedersdotter.
9) Sigrid Nilsdotter.
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| Johan III of Sweden |
(1537-1592)
King of Sweden
1568-1592
Grand Prince of Finland
1581
Son of: Gustav I Vasa of Sweden & Margareta Leijonhufvud.
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| Katarzyna Jagiellonka Queen of Sweden |
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| Gunilla Bielke |
His lovers were:
1) Gunilla Bielke (1568-1597)
Queen of Sweden 1583.
Maid-of-honour to Queen Catherine Jagiellon 1582 mar 1585.
Daughter of: Johan Axelsson Bielke, Governor of Ostergotland, cousin of King Johan III & Margareta Axelsdotter Posse.
"Johan III was a more cautious ruler. He supported the development of the nobility and strengthened his ties with them in 1583, when he took as his second wife a daughter of one of Sweden's leading families, Gunilla Bielke. His policies in this regard were designed largely to reduce the influence of his brother Duke Karl and did little to enhance the authority of the crown. . . ." (Scandinavia Since 1500: 34)
" . . . In less than a year after the death of the queen, King John married Gunilla Bielke, a maiden of but sixteen years of age, daughter of a counselor of state, John Bielke. The marriage was celebrated with great pomp, in February, 1585 at the castle of Westeras. The young wife favored, as far as she could without incurring the wrath of the king, the opponents of the Liturgy. But not even her great influence could deter the king from persisting in pressing it upon the kingdom. It had become a question in which he felt that his royal prerogative and kingly dignity were involved. But inasmuch as their marriage had offended all his kindred, and increased the alienation of Charles, the king became seriously alarmed lest his enemies might by the aid of his brother overthrow him; and was thus led to court and to bestow new favors upon the nobility in order that he might rely upon their support. . . ." (The Reformation in Sweden: its Rise, Progress, and Crisis; and its Triumph under Charles IX: 217)
" . . . In February 1585 Johan Married, as his second wife, Gunilla Bielke. The marriage was regarded in the Vasa family as a misalliance: worse, as a political blunder, since it diminished the distance between the high aristocracy and the throne. Acid comments were made by Johan's sisters. As for Karl, he refused to attend the wedding. It was a brutal insult to the Bielkes and their relations: they could not but remember that he had similarly boycotted the wedding of Karin Mansdotter. The high aristocracy from which the rad was recruited was still a relatively closed circle of not more than twenty-five or thirty great families, all inextricable linked by a bewildering network of intermarriages. Everybody, more or less, was related to everybody else. By this conduct over Stromsholm, Karl had alienated the Stenbocks; by this attitude to Queen Gunilla he mortally offended the Bielkes: between the two, there can have been few members of the rad-aristocracy who had not now a grudge---personal or vicarious---against him." (The Early Vasas: A History of Sweden, 1523-1611: 302)
2) Karin Hansdotter (1539-1596)
Lover in the 1550s.
"The son of a peasant of Medelpad of the name of Magnus, first a soldier, then a corporal in Erik's lifeguard, had a daughter named Katrina, or shorter Karin, who when yet a child sat in the marketplace selling nuts, by which she gained her subsistence. Erik passed on day, and remarking the extraordinary beauty of the girl, then about thirteen, had her received among the maids of honour of his sister Elizabeth. The little Karin learnt with facility all that was taught her; and distinguished herself for her modest, and in every way, loveable deportment. Her beauty, too, increased day by day, and though the paintings we still have of her, probably through the incapacity of the artists, are not at all striking in this respect, the authors of her time, even Erik's enemies, join in extolling her as the fairest of the fair. Erik was on the same opinion; he availed himself of every opportunity of showing her attention, and this had the readier influence on her, as he was handsome, and when he please, engaging. Ravished by the distinction thus bestowed, still more by her love, she gave herself up entirely to Erik, and a sincere and mutual affection united them. Erik abandoned his other mistresses; Karin became everything to him; his suits at foreign courts were dropped,and when she bore a son, Erik determined, in his own mind, to find an opportunity of making her his Queen." (Fryxell. The History of Sweden, Vol 2: 323)
Natural offspring.
"Gyllenhjelm (golden helmet) was the name assumed by the batards du sang of the Wasa dynasty. . . John had three children by Karin Hansdotter---Julius, Sophia and Lucretia. Julius died without issue; Lucretia expired in 1585, very suddenly, so much so that King John writes to his son-in-law de la Gardie, 'to beg him to justify his suspicions that Mother Kirstin, of Oseborg, took away the life of our dear departed daughter Lucretia by sorcery. We wish you to forward your reasons for such an assertion, that we may send for her up from Smaland to stand her trial for the crime.' . . . ." (One Year in Sweden; including a Visit to the Island of Gotland, Vol. 1: 68)
3) Katarina Jagellonica who became his wife.
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| Christina of Sweden |
Christina of Sweden.
Her lover was:
Antonio Alonzo Pimentel de Prado (1604-1671) was the Spanish envoy who came to Lyon to pursue negotiations with Mazarin for the Peace of the Pyrenees and the marriage of Louis XIV and the Infanta Marie Therese. . . Pimentel had distinguished himself some years earlier in a diplomatic mission to Sweden. He had come to the court of Queen Christina in 1652, had become the queen's confidant and perhaps her lover, had helped her establish contacts with Jesuit priests and had facilitated the support of the Spanish crown for her conversion to Catholicism and her abdication in 1654." (Mancini, 2009, p. 93)
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Karl IX of Sweden |
His lover was:
Karin Nilsdotter. (1551-1613)
Lover in 1568-1578.
Swedish royal mistress.
Daughter of: Nicolaus Carlsson Gyllenheim, Vicar of Ostra Husby & Karin.
Wife of:
1. Gustav Andersson (d.1584) Karl IX's courtier
2. Personal physician of Queen Katharina Stenbock
3. Peder Kristensson Siöblad of Flättna (1540-1604) Governor of Nyköping Castle
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| Gustav II Adolf of Sweden |
(1594-1632)
King of Sweden
1611-1632
Gustav II Adolf's physical appearance & personal qualities.
"The promise of his youth was more than fulfilled by his reign of twenty-one years. He grew tall and strikingly handsome despite the corpulence of his later years. He was as blond as those of ancient Gothic ancestors of whom he was overfond and had large round eyes set in a long face. His hair was white and his 'pointed beard of an almost golden hue'; the Italians called him 'il re d'oro.' His nose was long, slightly hooked, and his shoulders were broad. Gustav Adolf needed no decorations to appear regal, and his usual dress was starkly simple. His disposition was sanguine, positive, aggressive. He was gracious, bold, sagacious, lovable, abounding in infectious energy. As Nils Ahnlund put it, 'Enthusiasm was with him a normal condition; ; ; ; He had the art of lightening labor with a jest [and] the knack of getting on well with high or low, cleric or layman. 'He loved to dance; his daughter Kristina had no criticism of him exceot that he was perhaps 'too fond of the ladies.' He was a man of action, though 'he took unusual care to choose the precise moment to act. As a negotiator he seldom lost the spirit of attack. . . . He could command either bitter irony or dignified appeal. . . . His orders were peremptory.' As a warrior he characteristically thought in terms of offensive." (Sweden: The Nation's History: 164)
"The promise of his youth was more than fulfilled by his reign of twenty-one years. He grew tall and strikingly handsome despite the corpulence of his later years. He was as blond as those of ancient Gothic ancestors of whom he was overfond and had large round eyes set in a long face. His hair was white and his 'pointed beard of an almost golden hue'; the Italians called him 'il re d'oro.' His nose was long, slightly hooked, and his shoulders were broad. Gustav Adolf needed no decorations to appear regal, and his usual dress was starkly simple. His disposition was sanguine, positive, aggressive. He was gracious, bold, sagacious, lovable, abounding in infectious energy. As Nils Ahnlund put it, 'Enthusiasm was with him a normal condition; ; ; ; He had the art of lightening labor with a jest [and] the knack of getting on well with high or low, cleric or layman. 'He loved to dance; his daughter Kristina had no criticism of him exceot that he was perhaps 'too fond of the ladies.' He was a man of action, though 'he took unusual care to choose the precise moment to act. As a negotiator he seldom lost the spirit of attack. . . . He could command either bitter irony or dignified appeal. . . . His orders were peremptory.' As a warrior he characteristically thought in terms of offensive." (Sweden: The Nation's History: 164)
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| Ebba Brahe |
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| Ebba Brahe |
Daughter of: Magnus Brahe (1564-1633) and Brita Stensdotter Leijon Main.
Wife of: Count Jakob de La Gardie (1622-1686) mar 1618.
"As long as the Swedish nation exists, and its memorials are read by its people, the name Ebba Brahe will not be forgotten. Her father, Magnus Brahe, was a high official of the royal government, and his wife was a a marriage relative of the first Vasa king. Their only child was Ebba, celebrated for her beauty, her amiable character, and the association of her name with the great Adolphus. Her mother was the intimate friend of Christine, the mother of Gustavus. When Madam Brahe, by mortal illness, knew that her last hour was near, she asked of the queen dowager, as the last favor to her dying friend, that she would take the place of mother to her cherished daughter. Queen Christine granted this solemn request, and soon took Ebba under her special care and protection. The orphan child, by her pleasing manners, the propriety of her conduct, and her remarkable beauty, soon became a favorite of the queen and of all persons of the court. Her attractive qualities, and the estimation with which her advantages of birth were held, rendered her an object of rivalry among Swedish nobles. . . It was in 1612, when he had been nearly a year on the throne, that the young king made known his love for Ebba Brahe, and learned that it was reciprocated. . . ." (Stevens: 114)
"Clearly it would be best for Gustav Adolf to have an heir of his own, but his mother would not sanction marriage with his youthful romantic attachment, Ebba Brahe, the charming daughter of an important Swedish noble family. . . ." (Scott: 201)
Daughter of Abraham Cabiljau, a Dutch merchant, and Maria van Leest.
Wife of:
1. Andries Sessandes (d.1615), a Dutch military engineer.
2. Arendt Slots, a paper maker.
3. Jacob Trello (d. 1632), an artillerist & gunpowder maker
Natural offspring:
1. Gustav Gustavson.
"Two possible male successors to Gustav Adolf died early: his cousin Johan in 1618 and his younger brother Karl Filip in 1622, both without heirs . . . Gustav Adolf's own illegitimate son (Gustav of Vasaborg) by the Dutch Margareta Slots of course did not count. . . ." (Sweden, the Nation's History: 201)
" . . . There is a house on the Keizersgracht which has the inscription De Zweedse Koning, that is Gustaf II Adolf, the hero king who died in Lutzen in 1632, while fighting the Catholics. In the same year the University of Amsterdam was inaugurated, Gustaf Adolf had a Dutch mistress, Margaretha Cabeljouw, with whom he had a son, Gustaf Gustafsson, who is buried in the Riddarholms church in Stockholm like all members of the Swedish royal family until 1950." (Why Is the Netherlands the Best Country?: 26)
" . . . He was, while absent from the country on a military campaign, drawn into a temporary illicit intimacy with the handsome daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant who had become a resident of Gothenburg. Her name was Marguerite Cabeliau. For some unexplained reason she accompanied her father, in 1615, to the Swedish army in Livonia, where Gustavus was in command. A son was born to the young king, of whom Marguerite was the mother; and this child was called Gustaf Gustafsson, and afterwards known as Count Wasaborg. . . ." (History of Gustavus Adolphus: 118)
Wife of:
1. Andries Sessandes (d.1615), a Dutch military engineer.
2. Arendt Slots, a paper maker.
3. Jacob Trello (d. 1632), an artillerist & gunpowder maker
Natural offspring:
1. Gustav Gustavson.
"Two possible male successors to Gustav Adolf died early: his cousin Johan in 1618 and his younger brother Karl Filip in 1622, both without heirs . . . Gustav Adolf's own illegitimate son (Gustav of Vasaborg) by the Dutch Margareta Slots of course did not count. . . ." (Sweden, the Nation's History: 201)
" . . . There is a house on the Keizersgracht which has the inscription De Zweedse Koning, that is Gustaf II Adolf, the hero king who died in Lutzen in 1632, while fighting the Catholics. In the same year the University of Amsterdam was inaugurated, Gustaf Adolf had a Dutch mistress, Margaretha Cabeljouw, with whom he had a son, Gustaf Gustafsson, who is buried in the Riddarholms church in Stockholm like all members of the Swedish royal family until 1950." (Why Is the Netherlands the Best Country?: 26)
" . . . He was, while absent from the country on a military campaign, drawn into a temporary illicit intimacy with the handsome daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant who had become a resident of Gothenburg. Her name was Marguerite Cabeliau. For some unexplained reason she accompanied her father, in 1615, to the Swedish army in Livonia, where Gustavus was in command. A son was born to the young king, of whom Marguerite was the mother; and this child was called Gustaf Gustafsson, and afterwards known as Count Wasaborg. . . ." (History of Gustavus Adolphus: 118)
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| Karl X Gustav of Sweden |
(1622-1660)
King of Sweden
1654-1660
Husband of: Hedvig Eleonora von Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden.
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| Carl X of Sweden |
His lover was:
Marta Allertz (1628-1677)
Lover in 1646.
Swedish royal mistress
Daughter of: Claes Allerts (d.1650), Stockholm city councillor and Britta Jacobsdotter wheat merchant
Lover in 1646.
Swedish royal mistress
Daughter of: Claes Allerts (d.1650), Stockholm city councillor and Britta Jacobsdotter wheat merchant
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| Count Carl Gustafson |
"Allertz was the daughter of the wealthy Stockholm city councillor Claes Allerts (d. 1650) and the successful wheat merchant Britta Jacobsdotter. She became introduced for the future Charles X and his siblings because of their parents business associations: her wealthy parents helped the parents of Charles X economically and her mother had a business arrangement with John Casimir in which she sold the wheat produced in the Stegeborg County, where John Casimir was the governor. Allertz and Charles had a relationship after his return from Germany in 1646. In 1647 they had a son, Gustaf Carlson. Charles immediately acknowledged their child. He spent his first three years with his mother, was in 1650 entrusted to Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie and ennobled in 1674. In contrast to other mistresses of Swedish royalty, Allertz did not marry directly after the relationship was broken. Her mother was granted several sums in the capacity of her guardian. In 1665 Allertz personally was granted eight estates by the Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora and she was by then no longer under her mother's guardianship, but married and with children." (Wikipedia)
Charles XI of Sweden
Husband of Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, mar 1680
His lover was:
Hedewige Carlsdotter.
(1676-1751)
Friedrich I von Hessen-Kassel
King of Sweden
1730-1751
Husband of:
1. Luise Dorothea von Preussen (1/mar 1700)
2. Ulrike Eleonore of Sweden (2/mar 1715)
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| Hedvig Taube von Hessenstein |
Grafin von Hessenstein
Lover in 1730-1744
Swedish aristocrat, salonist & royal mistress.
"Foreign ambassadors continued to report mainly of the king's bear hunts, sometimes dangerously close, and his amorous liaisons. In 1730, he made the 16-year-old Hedvig Taube his mistress. After her death, the now 70-year-old king pursued new young girls even more vigorously.
"When Count Gustaf Sparre returned from his embassy post in London, he initially sided with Horn and warned Gyllenborg that Sweden was a 'serious' country and 'not having been used for two ages to declared mistresses, was shocked with the present one, particularly under the very nose of the Queen.' The situation became more scandalous in May 1733, when Frederick claimed to have a fit of colic and left Ulrika Eleonora and the assembled company to retire to his room. She later went to check on him 'and found Miss Taube in bed with him, with chocolate and biscuits by them,' which led the queen to shriek loudly and run out. A disgusted Finch reported that the 'Cabal,' which now included Bishop Eric Benzelius, 'keeps the King's favour by flattering and countenancing this passion.' Lars Bergquist notes that Swedenborg 'appears to have accepted his concubinage with Hedvig Taube,' while he too sought the king's support." (Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: 190)
Lover in 1745-1748
Swedish aristocrat & royal mistress
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| Adolf Fredrik I of Sweden |
(1710-1771)
King of Sweden
1751-1771
Lover in 1760-1765
French ballerina, actress and singerLover in 1766
Swedish baroness & courtier
Maid of Honour to Swedish Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia
Natural offspring:
Fredrika Charlotte "Lolotte" Forssberg
Swedish baroness & courtier
Maid of Honour to Swedish Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia
Natural offspring:
Fredrika Charlotte "Lolotte" Forssberg
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| Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden |
(1778-1837)
King of Sweden
1792-1809
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| Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, 1778 |
His lover was:
Maria Schlegel.
Karl XIII of Sweden
(1748-1818)
King of Sweden
1809-1818
(1748-1818)
King of Sweden
1809-1818
Husband of: Hedwig Elisabeth von Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden. (1759-1818)
His lovers were:
1) Augusta von Fersen (1754-1846)
Lover in 1771-1777.
Swedish aristocrat & lady-in-waiting
Swedish aristocrat & lady-in-waiting
2) Charlotta Eckerman (1759-1790)
Lover in 1779-1781
Swedish opera singer & actress
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| Mariana Koskull |
4) Mariana Koskull (1785-1841)
Lover in 1811.
Lady-in-waiting to Queen Hedvig of Sweden.
5) Sophia Hagman.
"Ballerinas of low birth entertained by royalty were not a uniquely French phenomenon. Sophie Hagman (1758-1826), a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet, entered the world poor as the daughter of a gamekeeper and rose to become the official royal mistress to Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden. . . ." (Ballerina: 19)
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| Karl XIV Johan of Sweden |
(1763-1844)
King of Sweden
King of Norway
1818-1844
Son of: Jean-Henri Bernadotte & Jeanne de Saint-Vincent.
Husband of: Desiree Clary mar 1798.
"Although he never mastered Swedish, Carl XIV John became a successful, well-respected monarch. Still so prolonged a separation led to rumors; Desiree was at one point romantically linked to Armand, Duke de Richelieu, Louis XVIII's chief minister. Bernadotte at various times was reputed to have had affairs with Jeanne-Francoise Recamier, Germaine de Stael, Mariana Koskull (a lady-in-waiting to Queen Hedvig) and a few other court ladies. Oscar was still a bachelor and had a mistress. It was necessary to secure the Bernadotte dynasty. . . ." (Women Against Napoleon: 87)
Personal & family background.
Jean-Baptiste was the son of Henri Bernadotte, an attorney, and his wife Jeanne St.-Jean. The family name was changed from de Poney in the 17th Century. (Horricks: 70)
Love life.
" . . . Bernadotte at various times was reputed to have had affairs with Jeanne-Francoise Recamier, Germaine de Stael, Mariana Koskull (a lady-in-waiting to Queen Hedvig) and a few other court ladies. . . ." (Maierhofer: 87)
Achievements & honours.
Enlisted in the Regiment de Brissac (1780); Sergeant-major in the marines (1788); in the Army of the Rhine (1792-1797); Division General; France's Ambassador to Vienna (1798); Minister of War (?-1799); Councillor of State; Commander in Chief of forces in La Vendee; Ambassador to the U.S.; Governor of Hannover (1804); Marechal de France; Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour (1805); Prince of Pontecorvo (1806); Grand Dignitary of the Couronne de Fer of Italy (1806); Commander of 9th Corps of the Grand Army; Crown Prince of Sweden (1810); King of Sweden. (Horricks: 72)
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| Karl XIV Johan of Sweden |
Karl XIV Johan's lovers were:
1) Anita Britta Schaurell (1790-?).
Wife: Carl Eric Thunstrom.
2) Germaine de Stael.
" . . . Her friendship with Bernadotte had its origin in an incident which she has described in her Souvenirs. One evening, in February 1801, Madame Recamier gave a party in honour of Madame Bacciochi, eldest sister of the First Consul. As her guests were rising from dinner, news reached Madame Recamier that her father, M. Bernard, had been arrested and lodged in the terrible Temple prison on a charge of distributing Royalist propaganda through the Post Office, of which department was was a high official. Madame Recamier turned in her distress to Madame Bacciochi, who sent her to Fouche, the Minister of Police. Fouche said: 'Your father's case is serious. See the First Consul this very night. . . What ensued can be best told in her own words: 'Then for the first time I remarked in the opposite corner of the box a man whose large dark eyes were fixed on me with an expression of such deep interest and compassion, that I felt touched. After having experienced so much coldness, it was a relief to meet with a little sympathy and kindness. . . .'" (Bernadotte and Napoleon: 42)
5) Kristine Martha Ahlberg (1765-1850)
Daughter of Albert Folke
Wife of Olof Kampe
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| Marianna Koskulla |
6) Mariana Koskull. (1785-1841)
Lover in 1818.
Swedish aristocrat & royal mistressLady-in-waiting to Queen Hedvig of Sweden.
Daughter of Gustaf Fredrik Koskull & Anna Charlotta Gjelstrup.
"She was pointed out and known as the mistress of King Charles XIII after his accession to the throne in 1809, and eventually as the mistress also to his successor King Charles Bernadotte (crowned 1818), with whom she was said to have had a child. Historians have sometimes been uncertain, whether she actually functioned as a mistress, or only seemed to have this position. Queen Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte remarked that the king acted as her lover without being able to, while Bernadotte became involved with her after his wife left for France (1811). Bernadotte tried to conceal the affair, while Koskull did the opposite: In June 1815, the queen remarked in her famous diaries that Koskull exposed new jewels so expensive that they were an obvious gift from the Prince. Koskull made recommendations and had her brother Gustav made captain lieutenant for the royal guard." (Wikipedia)
7) Unknown Forsberg (1740-1800)
7) Unknown Forsberg (1740-1800)
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| Oscar I of Sweden |
(1799-1859)
King of Sweden & Norway
1844-1859
Husband of Josephine von Leuchtenberg (1807-?, mar 1823, daughter of Eugene, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg & Augusta von Bayern.
"Oscar I, who ruled Sweden and Norway from 1844 until his death fifteen years later, effectively led parallel lives. Although initially happily married to his Italian-born queen, Josephine, who bore him five children in rapid succession, he was unfaithful to her almost from the start -- chiefly with Emilie Hogquist, a prominent actress whom he set up in a luxurious apartment close to the royal palace. Oscar was said to spend alternate nights with his wife and with Emelie, who bore him two sons -- who became jokingly known as 'the princes of Laponia' (Lappland). Before marrying, he had fathered another child with a lady-in-waiting to the former queen." (Great Survivors)
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| Oscar I of Sweden |
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| Emilie Hogquist |
Oscar I's lovers were:
1) Emilie Hogquist (1812-1846)
Swedish actress & royal mistress.
Daughter of: Anders Hogquist, Butler of the Count Carl de Geer & Anna Beata Hedvall. [Bio2]
Natural offspring: 1) Hjalmar Högquist (1839-1874); 2) Max Högquist (1840-1872)
Emilie Hogquist's other lover was:
John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield (1802-1879)
British peer & diplomat.
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Son of: Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield & Hariott Douglas.
Husband of: Hon. Georgiana Liddell mar 1845.
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Emilie Hogquist |
Natural offspring:
1. Hjalmar Hogquist (1839-1874)
2. Max Hogquist (1840-1872)
" . . . Emilie Hogqvist (1812-1846) is a Swedish actress and mistress to King Oscar I, with whom she had two sons." (Strindberg and Lofgren, p. 158)
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| Jacquette Lowenhield |
2) Jacquette Lowenhield (1797-1839)
Daughter of: Nils Wexionius, 5th Count Gyldenstolpe & Charlotta Aurora de Geer.
Wife of:
1. Count Carl Gustaf Lowenhielm (1790-1858) mar 1817, div 1829. 2. Baron Uno von Troll (1803-1839), a Finnish nobleman (married in 1838)
Natural offspring: Oscaria (1819-?)
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| Carl XV of Sweden @Unofficial Royalty |
Son of: Oscar I av Sverige & Josephine von Leuchtenberg.
Husband of: Marianne of the Netherlands.
"The marriage was never particularly happy. While Louise was smitten with her husband, he was rather indifferent to her and took many mistresses and fathered several illegitimate children. After the death of their son in 1854, and discovering that she could no longer bear children, Louise offered Carl a divorce but he refused." (Unofficial Royalty)
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| Karl XV of Sweden |
His lovers were:
1) Anna Margareta Lindqvist Bolander.
Natural offspring: Carl Johan Bolander (1854-1903).
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| Elise Hwasser |
2) Elise Hwasser. (1831-1894)
Swedish actress & royal mistress
Wife of: Daniel Hwasser mar 1858.
" . . . The eldest son, who succeeded Oscar as Carl XV in 1859, shared his father's predilection for actresses, having a brief affair with Elise Hwasser, the leading theatre star of her age, before moving on to another actress, Hanna Styrell, who had a daughter by him. . . ." (Great Survivors: 156)
"She had a brief affair with the Crown Prince, the future Charles XV of Sweden, who advised her to marry Daniel Hwasser, the secretary of the royal theatres direction, which oversaw the royal theatre. She took the Crown Prince's advice and married Hwasser in 1858, after which he was made director of the theatre. The fact that Elise Hwasser was suddenly awarded leading roles did not go unnoticed in the press: during her husband's short period as director of the theatre, she played all the leading female parts. Although this may very well have been the result of nepotism, it is equally clear that she did have talent as an actress – a talent that she was now able to demonstrate. Proof of this is provided by the fact that, after her husband had been dismissed as a director and her royal lover had acquired a new mistress, she nevertheless continued to play the leading female parts. Whatever means she had employed, she had now proven herself and, for the next thirty years, she played the leading female role in well over one hundred and fifty performances." (Wikipedia)
3) Hanna Styrell. (1842-1904)
Natural offspring:
Ellen Svensson Smith (1865-1931)
4) Josephine Sparre (1829-1892)
Lover in 1851-1862.
Swedish noblewoman, lady-in-waiting & royal mistress
Lover in 1851-1862.
Swedish noblewoman, lady-in-waiting & royal mistress
5) Maria Krasinska (1847-1912)
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| Sigrid Sparre |
6) Sigrid Sparre. (1825-1910)
7) Wilhelmine Schroder.
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| Karl XVI Gustav of Sweden |
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| Camilla Henemark |
His lover was;
1) Camilla Henemark (1964-?)
Swedish singer, actress, political spokesperson & fashion model
"The book “Carl XVI Gustaf – The Reluctant Monarch” claims to provide a rare glimpse into the King’s private life, including details of entertaining scantily-clad models in nightclubs run by underworld gangsters. The 340-page expose claims that the king, now 64, had a year-long affair about a decade ago with Camilla Henemark, who is of mixed Nigerian and Swedish heritage and was the lead singer of a rock band called Army of Lovers. The affair was known to the King’s wife, Queen Silvia, the book claimed. “The King sometimes looked like a love-crazed schoolboy and on one occasion they talked about running away together to an isolated exotic island,” the authors wrote. “(Henemark) was afraid she would become Sweden’s most hated woman if her affair with the country’s monarch became publicly known.”" (Telegraph)
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Oscar II of Sweden |
(1829-1907)
King of Sweden & Norway
1872-1907.
Son of Oscar I of Sweden & Josephine von Leuchtenberg.
Husband of Sophie von Nassau
" . . . The King is described as 'handsome in person, tall and commanding---to this are added a pleasing musical voice, quickness of observation, and great courtesy of manner, such natural gifts of themselves would be sufficient to make a sovereign popular with his people.' He is the author of several poetical works in the Swedish language, and various translations from other languages. He is a an imitator as well as translator of Horace. The King is also spoken of as fond of agriculture, and has gathered much information by foreign travel, speaking several of the languages of modern Europe. . . ." (The Friend, Or, Advocate of Truth: 76)
His lovers were:
1) Emma Hammarstrom (1849-1910)
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| Marie Friberg |
Natural offspring: Anna Hofman-Uddgren.
2) Marie Friberg (1852-1934)
Swedish opera singer.
Lover in ?-1891 or 1873-1878
Wife of:
1. Pascal d'Aubebard, Vicomte de Ferussac (1891-189?), mar 1891
2. Edvard Leman (1841-1922), mar 1893
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"In 1891, Marie emigrated to France – her relationship with Oscar had ended, though for reasons unknown – and she married a nobleman by the name of Pascal d'Aubebard vicomte de Ferussac, who adopted her two sons as his own. She married again in 1893, this time to Edvard Leman, who was almost a decade her senior. They settled in Paris, where she died in 1934." (A King's Whore)
"According to rumor Martin Stugart presented in an article in Dagens Nyheter, Oscar II had been following the construction of a house on Kungsgatan 51 with six parade houses containing eight or ten rooms and kitchen each. The house was built 1889-1890. It is said that Friberg, who was one of the king's kings, lived there for a while with their two sons. However, in May 1891 Friberg married the nobleman Pascal d'Aubebard vicomte de Ferussac, and he adopted the two boys designated as the king's children. Already two years later, 1893, she got married with Edvard Leman (1841-1922). The marriage goal of Edvard Leman took place in Paris, your Edvard Leman moved at the same time. Friberg was transferred in 1896 to the book of non-existent , though named unmarried and under his girl name. This indicates that her marriage was not registered in the National Register. She may have emigrated already before 1891. She is buried at the northern cemetery in Stockholm together with the parents trader CJ Friberg and Wilhelmina Charlotta, unmarried Edberg." (Wikipedia)
References.
Desiree: The Person, the Book, the Motion Picture @nebula5.org
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