Michael Roberts
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Professor of Modern History, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1954β73. Author of Gustavus Adolphus: A History of Sweden, 1611β1632 and The Early Vasas: A History of Sweden, 1523β1611.
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Gustavus Adolphus was the king of Sweden (1611β32) who laid the foundations of the modern Swedish state and made it a major European power. Gustavus was the eldest son of Charles IX and his second wife, Christina of Holstein. He was still some weeks short of his 17th birthday when he succeeded hisβ¦
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