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The House of Vasa (Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
: Vasaätten, Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
: Waza, ) was the Royal House
Royal House

A royal house or royal dynasty is a familial designation, or family name of sorts, used by Royal family. It generally represents the members of a family in various senior and junior or cadet branches, who are loosely related but not necessarily of the same immediate kin....
 of Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 1523-1654 and of Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 and Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
 1587-1668. It origined from a noble family in Uppland
Uppland

Uppland is a historical Provinces of Sweden or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders S?dermanland, V?stmanland and G?strikland....
 of which several members had high offices during the 15th century. The name continues to be associated with the Swedish royalty
Monarch of Sweden

The monarch is the head of state of the Sweden. Sweden, being a constitutional monarchy with a representative democracy based on a parliamentary democracy has a largely ceremonial monarch, though officially he or she holds the highest public office in Sweden and the highest military rank....
.

Kings and Queens of Sweden


In 1654 Christina, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, the Protestant Champion of the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe....
, abdicated, converted to Catholicism
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 and left the country.






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The House of Vasa (Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
: Vasaätten, Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
: Waza, ) was the Royal House
Royal House

A royal house or royal dynasty is a familial designation, or family name of sorts, used by Royal family. It generally represents the members of a family in various senior and junior or cadet branches, who are loosely related but not necessarily of the same immediate kin....
 of Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 1523-1654 and of Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 and Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
 1587-1668. It origined from a noble family in Uppland
Uppland

Uppland is a historical Provinces of Sweden or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders S?dermanland, V?stmanland and G?strikland....
 of which several members had high offices during the 15th century. The name continues to be associated with the Swedish royalty
Monarch of Sweden

The monarch is the head of state of the Sweden. Sweden, being a constitutional monarchy with a representative democracy based on a parliamentary democracy has a largely ceremonial monarch, though officially he or she holds the highest public office in Sweden and the highest military rank....
.

Kings and Queens of Sweden


  • Gustav I
    Gustav I of Sweden

    Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson and later known as Gustav Vasa , was Monarchy of Sweden from 1523 until his death. He was the first monarch of the House of Vasa, an influential Nobility which came to be the royal house of Sweden for much of the 16th and 17th centuries....
     (1523-1560)
  • Eric XIV
    Eric XIV of Sweden

    Eric XIV was Monarch of Sweden from 1560 until he was deposed in 1568. Eric XIV was the son of Gustav I of Sweden and Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg ....
     (1560-1568)
  • John III
    John III of Sweden

    John III was Monarch of Sweden from 1568 until his death. He was the son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife Margaret Leijonhufvud....
     (1568-1592)
  • Sigismund
    Sigismund III Vasa

    Sigismund III Vasa was Grand Duke of Lithuania and List of Polish monarchs, a monarch of joined Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1632, and Monarch of Sweden from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599....
     (1592-1599)
  • Charles IX
    Charles IX of Sweden

    Charles IX , was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, brother of Eric XIV of Sweden and John III of Sweden, and uncle of Sigismund III Vasa king of both Sweden and Poland....
     (1599-1611)
  • Gustavus Adolphus
    Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

    Gustav II Adolf, In the era, which was characterized by nearly endless warfare, he led his armies as Monarch of Sweden—from 1611, as a seventeen year old, until his death in battle while leading a charge during 1632 in the bloody Thirty Years' war—as Sweden rose from the status as a mere regional power and run-of-the-mill king...
     (Gustav Adolf the Great) (1611-1632)
  • Christina
    Christina of Sweden

    Christina , later known as Christina Alexandra and sometimes Countess Dohna, was Monarch of Sweden of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg....
     (1632-1654)


In 1654 Christina, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, the Protestant Champion of the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe....
, abdicated, converted to Catholicism
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 and left the country. The throne passed to her cousin Charles X of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken

The House of Palatinate-Zweibr?cken, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was the Royal House of Sweden from 1654 to 1720.By this point it had splintered into several different houses....
, a cadet
Cadet

A cadet may mean a future officer in the military, a junior branch of an important family, or simply a person who is a junior trainee....
 branch of the Wittelsbach
Wittelsbach

The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a Germany dynasty from Bavaria. Their major principal roles were as List of rulers of Bavaria , Electoral Palatinate , List of rulers of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, County of Hainaut and Zeeland , List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne , Duchy of J?lich and Berg , Kings of Sweden...
s.

The kings of the house of Holstein-Gottorp, which produced the kings of Sweden from 1751 to 1818, emphasized their Vasa descent through a female line. The currently ruling house of Bernadotte
Bernadotte

The House of Bernadotte, the current Royal House of the Sweden, has reigned since 1818. Between 1818 and 1905 it was also the Royal House of Norway....
 similarly claims a Vasa mantle, as Charles XIV
Charles XIV John of Sweden

Charles XIV & III John , born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, later renamed Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte was King of Sweden and King of Norway from 1818 until his death....
 was an adopted son of Charles XIII
Charles XIII of Sweden

Charles XIII & II , was Monarch of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 until his death. He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great....
, and his son Oscar I
Oscar I of Sweden

Oscar I, born Joseph Fran?ois Oscar Bernadotte , was Monarch of Sweden and List of Norwegian monarchs from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm ....
 married a Vasa descendant.

Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania

  • Sigismund III Vasa
    Sigismund III Vasa

    Sigismund III Vasa was Grand Duke of Lithuania and List of Polish monarchs, a monarch of joined Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1632, and Monarch of Sweden from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599....
     (1587-1632) (Son of John III)
  • Ladislaus IV (1632-1648)
  • John II (1648-1668)


John III of Sweden married Catherine Jagellonica, the sister of Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, and when Sigismund died without a male heir, their son was elected king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania as Sigismund III in 1587. On John's death Sigismund also gained the Swedish throne.

Sigismund was Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 however, which ultimately led to his losing the throne in Sweden. His uncle Charles IX
Charles IX of Sweden

Charles IX , was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, brother of Eric XIV of Sweden and John III of Sweden, and uncle of Sigismund III Vasa king of both Sweden and Poland....
 succeeded him. We thus have two Houses of Vasa from this point onwards: the senior, Catholic branch ruling in Poland, and the cadet, Protestant branch ruling in Sweden. This arrangement led to numerous wars between the two states. After John, the Polish Vasa died out. See also Rulers of Poland.

See also

  • Vasa
    Vasa

    Vasa may refer to:* House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland 1587-1668** Vasa , a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored...
    , listing many things named for the House of Vasa
  • Swedish monarchs family tree
  • Warship Vasa
  • Vaasa
    Vaasa

    Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa....
    , Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
  • House of Vasaborg
  • Vasa Order of America
    Vasa Order of America

    The Vasa Order of America, a Scandinavian-American fraternal, cultural and educational organization, was founded in 1896 at the height of Swedish immigration to the United States as a Swedish-American fraternal order....
  • List of Swedish wars
    List of Swedish wars

    This is a list of wars fought by Sweden between 1496 and 1814. Note that Sweden has, in fact, not been involved in any declared war since 1814:...