November 16 - Gustav Adolf II killed

On November 16, 1632, Gustav Adolf, King of Sweden of the House of Vasa, died in the Battle of L�tzen in Germany, during the Thirty Years War.

Having succeeded to the throne in 1611 at the age of 17, Gustav Adolf had not only inherited the title, bit also three wars from his father, Charles IX, against his neighbours, the Danes, and against his Eastern rivals, Russia and Poland. By 1629 the wars were concluded, on the whole successful, Sweden expanded and became the most powerful nation in Northern Europe and around the Baltic.
A year later, Gustav Adolf embarked on a new adventure, the Thirty Year War had raged for more than a decade by now, and onGerman soil the states of Europe fought a war ,under the pretext of a religious struggle, over the political dominance of the continent.
The strictly Protestant Swedish King, supported by Catholic France, intervened on behalf the beleaguered Protestant states of Germany, and in June 1630 landed his battle hardened army in Pommerania. Unlike many of the Protestant princes, the long suffering population of Northern Germany welcomed the arrival of the new player in the war, especially as he managed todefeat the Catholic Imperial army under their commander General Tilly in the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631, and once more in the battle at Lech six month later, where Tilly was killed.
The initial success of his German campaign secured Gustav Adolf the reputation of the greatest military commander of his age whose innovative tactics and the great mobility of his troops gained victories over the numerically superior Catholic troops. The marriage of his daughter to the Duke Elector of Brandenburg consolidated Swedish presence in Germany, and gave rise to the ambition to replace the redundant HRE with a Swedish dominated Empire in Germany. Gustav Adolf went South, marching his army into the heartlands of the Catholic League, Bohemia and Bavaria , whose capital Munich he occupied.
Having spent the summer of 1632 terrorizing the Catholic German South, Gustav Adolf returned North in late autumn, and on November 15, encountered the army of the Holy Roman Empire under their new commander Wallenstein near L�tzen, south of Leipzig in Protestant Saxony. Battle commenced on the following morning, November 16, and around midday, Gustav Adolf was killed in battle, leading a cavalry attack against the Imperial troops. Despite the loss of their King, the Swedish troops carried the victory, forcing Wallenstein to retreat to Leipzig.
Gustav Adolf is buried in the church of the Swedish Kings in Ridderholmen and was succeeded by his daughter Christina.



Gustav Adolf II of Sweden


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Yes Gustav was a good leader, he also got the first university built in Estonia. The university of Tartu, making the city todays educational capitol of Estonia.

And was he the king who had thoughts about Narwa, as the second capitol of Sweden, or was it more of an all around plan of the Swedish kings that remained a glisten of a thought?

On November 16, 1632, Gustav Adolf, King of Sweden of the House of Vasa, died in the Battle of L�tzen in Germany, during the Thirty Years War.

Hmm...I was taught that he died on November 6th, 1632 and all the sources I have read says the same thing.

Just noticed this error and wanted to point it out.