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Karl XI’s Triumphs
The roof painting in Karl
XI’s gallery at the Royal
Palace (1693) by the
French artist Jacques
Foucquet shows in
allegoric form the king’s
victories at Halmstad,
Lund and Landskrona.

King Karl X Gustav
Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel himself leads the Swedish Powerful Nobility
(see p58). army of 17,000 men. The nobility were very influential
in the Empire era, and many
successful soldiers were ennobled.
The Banér family coat of arms
from 1651 is adorned by three
helmets and barons’ crowns.

Bondeska Palatset
One of the leading buildings of the era
(1662–73), this palace was designed
by Tessin the Elder and Jean de la
Vallée for the State Treasurer Gustav
Bonde (see p60).

Crossing the Great Belt
When Denmark declared war on Sweden in autumn
1657, the Swedish army was in Poland. Marching west,
Karl X Gustav captured the Danish mainland, but
without the navy, he could not continue to Copenhagen.
However, unusually severe weather froze the sea, making
it possible for the soldiers to cross the ice of the Great Belt,
and the Danes had to surrender.

Karl XII’s
Pocket Watch
The warrior king’s
watch case dates from
1700. It shows the Karl XII’s Last Journey
state coat of arms, as After being hit by a fatal bullet at Fred­
well as those of the rikshald in Norway (1718), the king’s body
49 provinces that was taken first to Swedish territory then
belonged to Sweden on to Uddevalla for embalming. Painting
at that time. by Gustav Cederström (1878).

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