death_date regent birth_date reign father house death_place coronation spouse image caption predecessor succession birth_place issue successor religion mother article_title
5 april 1697 hedwig eleonora of holstein-gottorp 24 november 1655 13 february 1660 -- 5 april 1697 charles x , king of sweden palatinate-zweibrücken tre kronor , sweden 28 september 1675 ulrika eleonora of denmark charles xi of sweden -lrb- 1691 -rrb- . jpg charles xi , by ehrenstrahl , c. 1691 . charles x king of sweden tre kronor , sweden hedvig king of sweden ulrika eleonora , queen of sweden sophia , duchess of holstein-gottorp charles xii , charles xii lutheran hedwig eleonora of holstein-gottorp charles xi of sweden

charles xi of sweden

charles xi also carl , -lrb- 24 november 1655old style -- 5 april 1697old style -rrb- was king of sweden from 1660 until his death , in a period of swedish history known as the swedish empire -lrb- 1611 -- 1718 -rrb- .
charles was the only son of king charles x of sweden and hedwig eleonora of holstein-gottorp .
his father died when he was five years old , so charles was educated by his governors until his coronation at the age of seventeen .
soon after , he was forced out on military expeditions to secure the recently acquired dominions from danish troops in the scanian war .
having successfully fought off the danes , he returned to stockholm and engaged in correcting the country 's neglected political , financial and economic situation , managing to sustain peace during the remaining 20 years of his reign .
changes in finance , commerce , national maritime and land armaments , judicial procedure , church government and education emerged during this period .
charles xi was succeeded by his only son charles xii , who made use of the well-trained army in battles throughout europe .
the fact that charles was crowned as charles xi does not mean that he was the 11th king of sweden who had the name charles .
his father 's name -lrb- as the 10th -rrb- was due to his great-grandfather , king charles ix of sweden -lrb- 1604 -- 1611 -rrb- , having adopted his own numeral by using a mythological history of sweden .
this descendant was actually the 5th king charles .
the numbering tradition thus begun still continues , with the present king of sweden being carl xvi gustaf .
