Piotr Nater
speaker
792 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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Eric first sought, and with success, a counterpoise to his brothers in the nobles, whom he set himself to win by all sorts of favours.
He established the dignities of count and baron, hitherto unknown in Sweden, and by this means founded that higher nobility which, later on, was to become so dangerous to royalty.
He confirmed the Protestant character of the religious constitution of the realm.
The restless character of this unfortunate prince, who had a decided tendency to insanity, soon manifested itself.
At great cost he sent emissaries to Scotland, England, and numerous German courts to woo him alive.
With inadequate resources he contended with the Russians and the Poles for the possession of the Baltic provinces.
and in fifteen sixty one succeeded in gaining the city of Reval and Estonia.
This was the first conquest of Sweden beyond the Baltic and the beginning of a struggle that extended over a century and a half.
Then he began to quarrel with his brothers.
He caused the oldest of them, John of Finland, to be condemned to death for high treason, and imprisoned him and his wife, in fifteen sixty three, in the strong castle of Gripsholm.
Magnus of East Gotland, whom Eric had compelled to assist him against John, went mad with excitement and regret.
Charles of Sudermandland was saved from a similar fate only by his extreme youth.
He was only in his thirteenth year.
Rid of the fear of his brethren, the king now gave full course to his tyrannical and cruel temper.
Urged thereto by the ambitious and bloodthirsty Guren Persson.
He was constantly surrounded by spies who supplied him with victims.
Within five years, two hundred and thirty two persons were executed for political offences, many of them on absurd charges brought against them by person as public prosecutor.
Eric the fourteenth, considering himself now firmly established on his throne, renewed the war against Denmark in fifteen sixty three, where King Frederick II, fifteen fifty nine to fifteen eighty eight, with the aid of his minister, Peter Oxse, was giving the people an excellent administration, affording wise and generous protection to commerce and industry, and
and managing public finance with great skill, numerous fugitives from the Netherlands had settled among the Danes and brought them an increase of industrial prosperity and of trainability.
Frederick II, a peaceable and not very forcible prince, was hardly able to cope on equal terms with warlike Sweden and her excellent fleet.
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