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House of Vasa

Early modern royal house in Sweden

  • Also called Vasa dynasty

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Arms of the House of Vasa
Armoiries_rois_Vasa_de_Suède.svg : derivative work: Fry1989 (talk) 20:04, 14 February 2011 (UTC)  · CC BY-SA 3.0

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

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

  1. John II Casimir Vasa 1609 CE – 1672 CE
  2. John Albert Vasa 1612 CE – 1634 CE
  3. Karol Ferdynand Vasa 1613 CE – 1655 CE
  4. Alexander Charles Vasa 1614 CE – 1634 CE
  5. Anna Catherine Constance Vasa 1619 CE – 1651 CE
One family in House of Vasa: members whose records name these parents, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

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.

  1. 6 June 1523 CE – 29 September 1560 CE Gustav I of Sweden King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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.

  1. 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)
  2. 8 November 1632 CE – 20 May 1648 CE Władysław IV Vasa King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1595-1648)
  3. 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.

  1. 1670 CE – 1672 CE John II Casimir Vasa King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania 1648–1668; (1609-1672)

No dates recorded 1

Every recorded holder

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

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.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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is not a family in a myth.