Article: Charles XII (Sweden) (16821718; Ruled 16971718)

CHARLES XII (SWEDEN) (1682 1718; ruled 1697 1718)

CHARLES XII (SWEDEN) (1682 1718; ruled 1697 1718), king of Sweden. The son of Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Charles was raised in the context of Sweden's transition to absolutism. From a distinguished group of tutors he learned Latin, modern languages, history, mathematics, religion, military techniques, and Swedish politics and law. He was deeply religious, intense, tireless, self-assured, uncompromising, secretive, and fully committed to the ideas of Sweden's imperial greatness and divine right absolutism. Not yet fifteen when he his father died, he was recognized as ruling king by ...

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