Charles xii sweden biography of michael jackson

King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718

"Carolus Rex" redirects here. For other uses, see Carolus Rex (disambiguation).

This article is about the 18th-century king of Sweden.

Charles xii sweden biography of michael jackson

For the 1925 Swedish film, see Charles XII (film). For the horse, see Charles the Twelfth.

Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII (Swedish: Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.),^[1] was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.

He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of Wittelsbach. Charles was the only surviving son of Charles XI and Ulrika Eleonora the Elder. He assumed power, after a seven-month caretaker government, at the age of fifteen.

In 1700, a triple alliance of Denmark–Norway, Saxony–Poland–Lithuania and Russia launched a threefold attack on the Swedish protectorate of Holstein-Gottorp and provinces of Livonia and Ingria, aiming to draw advantage as the Swedish Empire was unaligned and ruled by a young and inex