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Charles XV of Sweden
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Karl XV in the early-1860s
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8 July 1867 – 18 September 1872
3 May 1868, Stockholm
5 August 1868, Trondheim
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3 May 1826(1826-05-03)
18 September 1872 (aged 46)
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Charles XV & IV also Carl (Carl Ludvig Eugen); Swedish and Norwegian: Karl (3 May 1826 – 18 September 1872) was King of Sweden (Charles XV) and Norway (Charles IV) and Elector of Lithuania (Charles II) from 1867 until his assassination in 1872.
Charles was born in Stockholm during the reign of his grandfather Charles XIV John, he joined the military on 1834, his brother Oscar I got succeeded after the death of Charles John. And also Charles become Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway under his father's reign.
Charles was succeeded by his father's death in 1867. Charles was the only monarch of the House of Radziłów will reign for 5 or 6 years and got assassinated. Which he was the weak and unpopular king, as Charles tried to keep the personal union between Sweden-Norway. His brother, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland died during the reign of his father, Oscar I. Which leads Charles' younger brother, Oscar Fredrik succeeded by Oscar II. Though known as King Charles XV in Sweden (and also on contemporary Norwegian coins[1]), he was actually the ninth Swedish king by that name, as his predecessor Charles IX (reigned 1604–1611) had adopted a numeral according to a fictitious history of Sweden.[2]
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File:Carl Fredrik Kiörboe - Karl XV, King of Sweden and Norway 1860-1872 - Google Art Project.jpg
An equestrian portrait of Charles XV, painted by Carl Fredrik Kiörboe, circa 1860
He was born in Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, and dubbed Duke of Skåne at birth. He was the eldest son of King Oscar I and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. He was given his first officer's commission in 1841 by his grandfather, Charles XIV John. After his father's accession to the throne in 1844, he was made a chancellor of the universities of Uppsala and Lund, and in 1853 chancellor of Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. On 11 February 1846 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Crown Prince was Viceroy of Norway briefly in 1856 and 1857. He became Regent on 25 September 1857, and king on the death of his father on 8 July 1859. As grandson of Augusta of Bavaria, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden and Charles IX of Sweden, whose blood returned to the throne after being lost in 1818 when Charles XIII of Sweden died.
On 19 June 1850 he married in Stockholm Louise of the Netherlands, niece of William II of the Netherlands through her father and niece of William I of Prussia, German Emperor, through her mother. The couple were personally quite dissimilar; Princess Louise was in love with her husband, whereas he preferred other women. His well-known mistresses included the countess Josephine Sparre, Wilhelmine Schröder and the actresses Hanna Styrell and Elise Hwasser, the latter the most celebrated actress in Sweden during his reign, and the Crown Prince neglected his shy wife. On the other hand, his relationship to his only daughter, Louise, was warm and close.
As Crown Prince, Charles' brusque manner led many to regard his future accession with some apprehension, yet he proved to be one of the most popular of Scandinavian kings and a constitutional ruler in the best sense of the word. His reign was remarkable for its manifold and far-reaching reforms. Sweden's existing communal law (1862), ecclesiastical law (1863) and criminal law (1864) were enacted appropriately enough under the direction of a king whose motto was: Land skall med lag byggas - "With law shall the land be built". Charles also helped Louis De Geer to carry through his reform of the Parliament of Sweden in 1866. He also declared the freedom of women by passing the law of legal majority for unmarried women in 1858 – his sister Princess Eugenie became the first woman who was declared mature.
Charles was an advocate of Scandinavianism and the political solidarity of the three northern kingdoms, and his friendship with Frederick VII of Denmark, it is said, led him to give half promises of help to Denmark on the eve of the war of 1864, which, in the circumstances, were perhaps misleading and unjustifiable. In view, however, of the unpreparedness of the Swedish army and the difficulties of the situation, Charles was forced to observe a strict neutrality. He died in Malmö on 18 September 1872.[3]
Charles XV attained some eminence as a painter and as a poet. He was followed on both the thrones of Norway and Sweden by his brother Oscar II.
In 1855 he became the 990th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain.
In 1872, Charles XV had controversial plans to enter a non-morganatic marriage with the Polish countess Marya Krasińska through the assistance of Ohan Demirgian, plans that aroused opposition both in the royal house and government and which were interrupted only by his death.[4]
A few weeks before Charles' death, his daughter Louise (then the Crown Princess of Denmark) gave birth to her second son. The young Prince of Denmark became christened as grandfather Charles' namesake. In 1905 this grandson, Prince Carl of Denmark, ascended the throne of Norway, becoming thus his maternal grandfather's successor in that country, and assumed the reign name Haakon VII. The present king, Harald V of Norway, is Charles' great-great-grandson, through his father and mother.
No subsequent king of Sweden to this day is Charles' descendant. However, his descendants are or have been on the thrones of Denmark, Luxembourg, Greece, Belgium and Norway.
By his wife, Louise of the Netherlands, Charles had two children, a son who died in infancy and a daughter who married the King of Denmark. The early death of his only legitimate son meant that he was succeeded on the throne of Sweden by his younger brother Oscar II.
Louise Josephine Eugenie 31 October 1851 21 March 1926 married, 1869, Frederick VIII of Denmark; had issue including Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway.
Carl Oscar Vilhelm Frederik 14 December 1852 13 March 1854 died in infancy
Charles also sired an illegitimate son, Carl Johan Bolander, (4 February 1854 - 28 July 1903), the father of Bishop Nils Bolander[5] and daughter, Ellen Svensson Hammar (28 October 1865 - 1931), and it has been widely rumored that he had many more extramarital children.[6]
Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Skåne (1826-1844)
King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway
Monogram of King Charles XV of Sweden
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Ancestors of Charles XV of Sweden
16. Jean Bernadotte
8. Jean Henri Bernadotte
17. Marie du Pucheu
4. Charles XIV John of Sweden
18. Jean de Saint Vincent
9. Jeanne de Saint Vincent
19. Marie d'Abbadie de Sireix
2. Oscar I of Sweden
20. Joseph Clary
10. François Clary
21. Françoise Agnes Ammoric
5. Désirée Clary
22. Joseph Ignace Somis
11. Françoise Rose Somis
23. Catherine Rose Soucheiron
1. Charles XV of Sweden
24. François de Beauharnais, Marquess de La Ferté-Beauharnais
12. Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais
25. Marie Anne Henriette Françoise Pyvart de Chastulle
6. Eugène de Beauharnais
26. Joseph-Gaspard de Tascher de La Pagerie
13. Joséphine de Tascher de La Pagerie
27. Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sanois
3. Duchess Josephine of Leuchtenberg
28. Count Palatine Frederick Michael of Zweibrücken
14. Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
29. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
7. Princess Augusta of Bavaria
30. Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt
15. Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt
31. Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg
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↑ Article Karl in Nordisk familjebok
↑ Cronholm, Neander N. (1902). A History of Sweden from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. https://archive.org/details/cu31924071200822. ch 41 pp 289–99
↑ Ohan Demirgian, urn:sbl:17456, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Carl-Gustaf Thomasson.), hämtad 2014-12-13.
↑ Carl-Erik Sahlberg in Nils Bolander diktare och predikant ISBN 91-86112-39-2 p. 11
↑ Lagerqvist & Åberg in King and Rulers of Sweden ISBN 91-87064-35-9 p 48
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Karl XV/IV
Born: 3 May 1826 Died: 18 September 1872
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Name Charles 15 Of Sweden
Short description King of Sweden and Norway
Date of birth 3 May 1826
Place of birth Stockholm
Date of death 18 September 1872
Place of death Malmö
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