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Gustavus Vasa

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Gustavus Vasa (1496-1560)

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Gustavus I (called Gustavus Vasa), king of Sweden, aged 62 years, in a painting from 1558 by W Boy. Gustavus Vasa was a wise man and a brilliant orator and letter-writer, but also a ruthless and artful ruler. He formed the first national army in northern Europe and established the Swedish navy as a formidable force.

King of Sweden from 1523, when he was elected after leading the Swedish revolt against Danish rule. He united and pacified the country and established Lutheranism as the state religion.



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This study of the brothers Johannes Magnus and Olaus Magnus, the last two Roman Catholic archbishops of Uppsala, credits them with a much more prominent role in Swedish history than has been conceded by traditional historiography, which points to the leaders of the Swedish Reformation, King Gustavus Vasa and the Lutheran preacher Olaus Petri, as the ones who set the country on the road to modernity.
The Renaissance of the Goths in Sixteenth-Century Sweden by Nauert, Charles G., Jr. / Renaissance Quarterly
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