Protestant Sweden, with the encouragement of Catholic…

1630 CE

Protestant Sweden, with the encouragement of Catholic France, concludes a truce with Catholic Poland, its rival in the Baltic.

King Sigismund’s thirty-year war with the Swedes has cost him most of Polish Livonia.

King Gustavus Adolphus, like Christian IV before him, comes to aid the German Lutherans, to forestall Catholic aggression against their homeland, and to obtain economic influence in the German states around the Baltic Sea.

In addition, Gustavus is concerned about the growing power of the Holy Roman Empire.

No one knows the exact reason for Gustavus to enter the war and this will long be widely argued.

Like Christian IV, Gustavus is subsidized by Cardinal Richelieu, the Chief Minister of Louis XIII of France, and by the Dutch Republic.

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Stockholm Stockholms Län Sweden View →

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Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu View → Christian IV View → Gustav II Adolf Vasa View → Sigismund III Vasa View →

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Christians, Roman Catholic View → Lutheranism View → Protestantism View → Sweden, (second) Kingdom of View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations) View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Catholic League, the (German) View → Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire View →

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Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival) View → Eighty Years War (Netherlands, or Dutch, War of Independence) View → Thirty Years' War View → Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years' War View →

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