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Hace 2 días · Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, known as the "Lion of the North", at the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. From 1626 to 1629, Gustavus was engaged in a war with Poland–Lithuania, ruled by his Catholic cousin Sigismund, who also claimed the Swedish throne and had Imperial support.
Hace 5 días · One of the most powerful lines in the song is the bridge: “Mighty eagle, rule alone. Liberator, claim the throne. Lion from the northern land, take the scepter from his hand.” This portrays Gustavus Adolphus as a visionary, a ruler with a mission to establish his dominance and replace the existing powers.
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Hace 3 días · Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate 24 July 1616 Heidelberg four children: His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years' War. Also Duke of Prussia. Frederick III: 1 May 1616: 1625–1634: 6 September 1634: Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach: Unmarried: Left no descendants. He was succeeded by his brother. Albert II ...
Hace 2 días · Gustavus Adolphus is often regarded by military historians as one of the greatest military commanders of all time, with innovative use of combined arms. [n 6] As the heiress presumptive, at the age of six Christina succeeded her father on the Swedish throne (being the only person left in the line of succession), although a regency government would rule in her name until she turned 18 years of age.
Hace 4 días · Overall per pale sable, a lion or, armed, langued and crowned gules (Palatinate) and fusilly bendwise azure and argent (Bavaria); grafted in point gules, an orb or, which is the heraldic augmentation for the archsteward of the Holy Roman Empire. Counts Palatine of the Rhine from 1648 to 1688.
Hace 1 día · But like Ferdinand II marching into Bohemia and the Palatinate in 1618-9, this assertion of direct imperial power ends up triggering a more general revolt of the princes (intensified, of course, by the fact that the Empire loses the Death Star almost immediately, meaning the threat meant to keep the princes in line while their administrations were dismantled had vanished).
Hace 3 días · British Political Thought, 1500-1660: The Politics of the Post-Reformation Glenn Burgess Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN: 9780333574102; 448pp.;Price: £60.00
