who was charles xii
Charles XII, also Carl, Latinized to Carolus Rex, was the King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-ZweibrÃ¼cken, a branch line of the House of Wittelsbach. Charles was the only surviving son of Charles XI and Ulrika Eleonora the Elder. He assumed power, after a seven-month caretaker government, at the age of fifteen. In 1700, a triple alliance of DenmarkâNorway, SaxonyâPolandâLithuania and Russia launched a threefold attack on the Swedish protectorate of ...