A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 12
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
5 children in the house
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John II Casimir Vasa 1609 CE – 1672 CE -
John Albert Vasa 1612 CE – 1634 CE -
Karol Ferdynand Vasa 1613 CE – 1655 CE
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Alexander Charles Vasa 1614 CE – 1634 CE -
Anna Catherine Constance Vasa 1619 CE – 1651 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Gustav I of Sweden12 May 1496 CE – 29 September 1560 CE · King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560 -
Sigismund III Vasa20 June 1566 CE – 19 April 1632 CE (Old Style) · King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566–1632) -
Constance of Austria24 December 1588 CE – 10 July 1631 CE · Queen consort of Poland and Sweden -
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden9 December 1594 CE (Old Style) – 6 November 1632 CE (Old Style) · Swedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632) -
Władysław IV Vasa9 June 1595 CE – 20 May 1648 CE · Child of Sigismund III Vasa -
John II Casimir Vasa22 March 1609 CE – 16 December 1672 CE · Child of Sigismund III Vasa -
John Albert Vasa25 June 1612 CE – 29 December 1634 CE · Child of Constance of Austria -
Karol Ferdynand Vasa13 October 1613 CE – 9 May 1655 CE · Child of Constance of Austria
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Alexander Charles Vasa4 November 1614 CE – 19 November 1634 CE · Child of Constance of Austria -
Count Gustav of Vasaborg, 1st Count of Nystad24 April 1616 CE – 25 October 1653 CE · Child of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden -
Anna Catherine Constance Vasa7 August 1619 CE – 8 October 1651 CE · Child of Constance of Austria -
Christina of Sweden7 December 1626 CE – 9 April 1689 CE (Old Style) · Child of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Monarch of Sweden
- 4 holders
- 2 gaps
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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6 June 1523 CE – 29 September 1560 CE Gustav I of Sweden King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560 -
Gap about 32 years before the next in this house
17 November 1592 CE – 24 July 1599 CE Sigismund III Vasa King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566–1632) -
Gap about 12 years before the next in this house
30 October 1611 CE – 6 November 1632 CE Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden Swedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632) -
6 November 1632 CE – 6 June 1654 CE Christina of Sweden Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689)
King of Poland
- 3 holders
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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19 August 1587 CE – 19 April 1632 CE Sigismund III Vasa King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566–1632) -
8 November 1632 CE – 20 May 1648 CE Władysław IV Vasa King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1595-1648) -
20 November 1648 CE – 16 September 1668 CE John II Casimir Vasa King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania 1648–1668; (1609-1672)
Commendatory abbot
- 2 holders
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1670 CE – 1672 CE John II Casimir Vasa King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania 1648–1668; (1609-1672)
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Karol Ferdynand Vasa Polish Prince-Bishop
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
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Catholic Church 4 members -
Lutheranism 3 members
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Catholicism 3 members -
Society of Jesus 2 members -
Reformed Christianity 1 member
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How House of Vasa connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of it cites only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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