
Charles XII (*1682, crowned 1697, †1718).
The last of the Swedish kings from the House of Wittelsbach was an unassuming person, with no wife or children. He dedicated his life to the war for hegemony in the Baltic, succumbing to the emergent tsardom of Peter the Great, who was pushing towards the seas. The King was shot and killed during the siege of Frederikshald.
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