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John III ( Swedish: Johan III, Finnish: Juhana III; 20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592) was King of Sweden from 1569 until his death. He was the son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife Margaret Leijonhufvud. He was also, quite autonomously, the Duke of Finland from 1556 to 1563.
15 de sept. de 2022 · Death: November 17, 1592 (54) Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sverige (Sweden) Place of Burial: Uppsala, Sverige. Immediate Family: Son of King of Sweden Gustaf Eriksson Vasa and Margareta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud, Queen of Sweden. Husband of Catherine Jagellon, Queen of Sweden and Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden.
John III (born Dec. 21, 1537, Stegeborg Castle, Sweden—died Nov. 17, 1592, Stockholm) was the king of Sweden (1568–92), a deeply religious ruler who attempted to reconcile the Swedish Lutheran Church with the Catholic leadership in Rome and to revive discarded elements of the Catholic liturgy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
After his release, Duke Johan and his brother Duke Karl (IX) launched a coup against Erik XIV, and in 1568 Johan III was named Sweden's new king. In 1562, Johan married Princess Katarina Jagellonica of Poland. The couple had three children: Isabella, Sigismund and Anna.
When King Johan III Vasa was born on 20 December 1537, in Söderköping, Östergötland, Sweden, his father, Gustav I Vasa King of Sweden, was 41 and his mother, Margareta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud, was 21. He married Anna Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania Jagiello Báthory in 1552, in Länsi-Suomi, Finland.
Johan III, född 20 december 1537 på Stegeborgs slott, död 17 november 1592 på slottet Tre Kronor i Stockholm, var kung av Sverige 1569–1592 efter att ha tillskansat sig kungamakten genom att hösten 1568 fängsla sin bror Erik XIV och propagera mot honom resten av det året.
House of Vasa, Swedish (and Polish) dynasty descended from an old family of Uppland, related both to the Sture family and to the Bonde family of Sweden’s King Charles VIII (d. 1470). Its founder was Gustav Eriksson Vasa , who became regent of Sweden in 1521 and King Gustav I Vasa in 1523.
