Gustav Vasa - The King who built the Swedish Empire(1523 - 1560)

Who was Gustav Vasa, and why is he an important character in Swedish History?

In this two-part series, we’re going to cover the life and legacy of Gustav Vasa. We will start by examining the final days of the Kalmar Union, and the rise of king Christian II of Denmark. Then we will cover Gustav Vasa's rebellion against the Danes and the creation of an independent Swedish kingdom.

Afterward, we’re going to learn about his 37-year long reign, and how he during his kingship transformed Sweden from a late-medieval semi-feudal kingdom to the modern state which in the early seventeenth century would become the Swedish Empire.


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Music Credits.
Lost Frontier, Crusade, Lost Time, and The Decent by Kevin Macleod.

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Sources(Note: They only exist in Swedish).
Svensk historian(Olle Larsson and Andreas Eklund. 2015).
Det svenska samhället 800-1720 - Klerkernas och adelns tid(Maria Sjöberg och Thomas Lindqvist. 2019).


Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:28 The Swedish reformation
03:14 Peasant rebellions
07:32 Governmental reforms
11:10 Liberator, tyrant.. or something in between?