Erik is now going through a re evaluation actually. He seems to be a lot better than his reputation. His younger brothers had all the reason to make him a sick villain, just to defend their own deeds. Always remember that it's the victor who gets to write the history.
@peartree8388 It seems to me that Erik inherited the paranoia from his father but wasn't as strong as him. Gustav was better at being a brute. One positive thing about him though, was that he was a good father who cared about his children.
My take is that Eric was never mad but just did not do what those around him expected of him. He married a plain normal women and tried to live as he saw fit. It was called madness by the ones that detested it.
This is the first I’ve heard an in depth account of his reign. We need a series dedicated to the lesser known royalty and nobility who suffered from mental illness. I’m sure there are plenty of other tales out there.
The Spanish monarchy was riddle with them, and a couple of Italian nobles as well. But the ones that really took the cake were the german princes and the Eastern European monarchs.
Green pea soup is made from dry peas as well but I'll take your word that Swedish pea soup is the color you say it is. Those pale yellow peas are used in what my English grammy called "hambone soup".
@@beeharbour My mate used to make pea and ham soup from the green dried peas, and it came out a pale green, but very definately green. Mmm, hungry now x
The pea soups i've made have allways been yellow in colour. I think it's species of peas you use decide the colour. Not that it matter that mutch. No matter what, your co-workers gonna refeare to you as a cemical weapon for a few days after you eat it.
Karin Mansdotter's sarcofage îs in the Turku Cathedral in Finland as she was of Finnish origin (Finland was part of Sweden then). The Archdiocese of Turku makes sure there are always fresh flowers in front of the sarcofage. There is a beautiful, romantic song about Erik and Karin spending "a night in beautiful May" on a sloop in the waters outside Stockholm, with Erik playing the lute to his bride. Charles later had Sigismund, the son of his bother John, deposed as King of Sweden and he took the throne himself as Charles IX. One of the most fashionable squares in Stockholm of today is called Stureplan.
For what transparent slithers of texts of history, from the volume, intensity and detail, there's sadly much truth to the romance. I wish they and the children could have been politically neutered but still have, you know, fresh water, food, running round a castle courtyard rather than wasting away in a dungeon for a mad kings vanity.
Karin Månsdotter got on living in Åbo in Finland, even returning to Sweden to visit the Dowager Queen Katarina Stenbock and current Queen Katarina Jagellonica
@@MattiasSvanberg1987 Bo Jonsson Grip had Finland in a firm grip already in the 1300s. Somehow his clan went into stealth mode, and the big estates like Finland and Sweden were owned by institutions, on paper at least.
I think he angered the nobles a d siblings when he demoted them and they took revenge and spread rumors that he was mad. He feared that everyone was plotting against him because it was true. The nobles were always trying to vie for power and for ways to replace the king with themselves.
"We found the mad King dressed as a beggar and braught him back to-- -Oh-my-God-we-should-have-grabben-anny-sane-beggar-instead-of-the-real-mad-King!" 🙄
Eric is only special in his family for being both cruel *and* crazy. His father and two half brothers mentioned in the video where all cruel and quick to anger, Charles being the worst in that regard. And if we are talking about crazy the video does not even mention his third half brother, Duke Magnus. Magnus was so mentaly ill that he could not be alone at anny time, as acording to legend he once jumped out of his room window from a castle into a moot because he claimed to have seen a mermeid swiming in it.
Erik XIV Rex. Died at Örbyhus castle 26 feb 1577. R.I.P. oh and by the way, Swedish pea soup is yummy and it is still served at that castle now without the arsenic.
@@januarysson5633 Det blir mycket förändringar nu när vi är med i Nato. Vi ska dubbla våran försvarsbudget...åka på korståg jorden över och invadera länder som inte har gjort oss något ont...osv osv, ärtsoppa är ett litet problem dock lite sorgligt.😢😢
The "insanity" would have been considered "normal" in other circumstances. Compare it with Henry VIII e.g.: You want to own my girl? You own the gallows, boy.
Thank you so much. Im a history nerd and lament often that there is so little about the nordic Kings and Queens. I'm talking of good and deep information, not 4 min snippets. Your video is wholesome and really great insight.
New information. But what Eric did to the Sture family is nothing compared to what the 18th c. Portuguese king Joseph I did to the noble Távora family. Horribly tortured all of them to death in public, destroyed their home and salted the ground.
Actually, his brother (Charles) was much worse when it came to violence. Eric was a Machiavellian king. It was not totally crazy to go after the Sture family. They were in power before the Wasa Family (Erics). Also, the Wasa family was new as kings. That's why they tried to find powerful queens to marry. When he killed the Stures he had a mental breakdown.
Wow, the whole Wasa family after Gustav Erikson Wasa was more or less crazy, but King Eric is not as crazy nor brutal if you compare him to his father or Charles the Ninth. Gustav Wasa basically were our medievil version of Joseph Stalin who killed far more Swedes then what King Christian of Denmark,, whom he rebelled against who at that point was the rightful king of Sweden. Also, Charles made the ten commandments from the bible into actual Swedish law were each broken commandment was punishable by death which were mostly carried out by beheadings. It has been estimated if the church hadn´t pardoned a majority of the accused, the population of Sweden would have dropped to 1/3 during his reign. Eric was brutal, paranoid and mistrusting, but the only one who were spared of the "Wasa curse" was more or less just Sigismund. Also, since you didn´t mention it; the coffin he was put into was too small for him so they, IIRC, cut his feet off. When that was discovered, the people responsible was repremended and he was given a proper coffin fit for a king and moved to Västerås castle which held quite a bit of significance to his family. It in that castle, his father, according to legend, pushed the Danish back during his rebellion against the Kalmar Union. The castle was later rebuilt by his father from a small defensable outpost/battlement to a proper castle to defend the coastline from more incoming attacks and are as known as one of many Wasa Castles until this day - and king Eric still rests there until this day.
I really appreciate this video, as Swedish history does not show up much in Anglophone platforms. I learned a lot and the presentation was engaging. But I have to say, as late medieval/early modern monarchs go, Erik doesn't really seem that bad (sadly). For example, another one of Elizabeth I's unsuccessful suitors was Ivan the Terrible, and her father Henry VIII, though he was never regarded as crazy, was super paranoid and had lots of people executed on some very flimsy charges. But at the same time, it was also an era of religious upheaval and there really were a lot of spies and intrigue going on in all the courts of Europe. Just because these guys were paranoid doesn't mean someone wasn't out to get them. It was a time when life was very cheap.
His wife did get a smale province in Finland, and lived there until her death of old age. Of the children who survived to adulthood, the daughters were married off to various noblemen, and did live a normal life for there status. There only living son Gustav, was forced into exiled by his uncle (now the new King of Sweden) and did have a miserable life, as either destitute, or as a politcal game piece, in the Polish or Russian court. Remember he was the "true heir" to the Swedish throne, and did die young in Russia.
Queen Mary 1st looks just like Dennis Waterman, an English actor !!! Even Philip of Spain (her husband) could'nt get interested in her, he couldn't wait to go back to Spain, and never came back....We used to sing in school about Mary never having a baby, "Aunty Mary had a canary up the leg of her drawers, when she farted, down it darted, and never went back no more !!!" Heheheheheheh
Ah yes, the poisoned pee soup, the cournerstoone of Sweden's gourmet history. Together with fermented hering and the mardigrass bun with 2 pounds of butter that is suposed to have killed King Adolf Fredrik in 1771. If I hade to choose I pick the later!-)
Psychotic paranoia narcissistic we have one guy in the US that suffers from that. Wears heavy make up and blond yellow wig proclaims he is beautiful. I love pea soup.
@@belamoure He's the definition of a blithering idiot. He's like a walking parody of himself. If he wasn't so sick and vile, it would be hilarious. But he's just disgusting. A foul sociopath...he belongs on a locked ward for the criminally insane 🤡
My educated guess is that King Eric XIV never took a course called art appreciation in a higher education institution. Probable a lot of other things he was never taught at the time too on how to be upright. While both the poorest of the poor women around along with former wives during remarriage to a younger wife again were often not being allowed to teach on how to be upright.
His grandfader was exrcuted by King Christian the tyrant, His fader King Gustav, was a very ruthless and suspicious person. Erik was very well educated for his time, compare to his fader, and was a "enlightened monarch" and beleve in "divine right of kings" He did personaly lead a long war in the baltic, and to his horror, the high nobility had strengthened there power, at the expense of the power of the king, while he was away. That was a crime in the kings mind, and it resulted in the (in)famus act, then he attack and killed a high noble with a knife, for the king at that moment, it was justice and a lawful execution. It seems he regretted what he did afterwards.The high nobles was naturally enrage (and the parlament to) by the act, and declared Erik mad, and placed Eriks younger half brother on the throne. I have no idea what you speak about wifes, Erik himself did marry a low born women out of love, that to enrage the high nobles. But they couldn't stop it.
Well Erik was not kind when he accepted Ivan the terribles idea about sending his brother Johans wife Katarina Jagellonica to Russia. Ivan wanted to merry Katarina but it was Johan who married her. When Ivan heard that Katarina and Johan lived at Gripsholm he wrote to Erik and demanded him to take Katarina from her husband and her little boy Sigismund.
It's not unimportant that Erik was the son of a usurper - and there would be more to follow in Sweden. His father had been elevated to the throne by leading a result against the combined monarchy.
@Kebabmaster5000 words aren't necessarily synonyms for good or bad. I don't think you know what usurper means and it's connotation in early modern Europe.
Erik XIV's half-brother Karl XI was a more brutal king than Erik XIV. Charles XI used what is now known as ethnic cleansing and genocide to crush the opposition in newly occupied areas. For example, he burned down eleven parishes in Skåne to make the inhabitants of these areas obey him. He introduced impalement as a method of execution for people who opposed him. The impalement law was only introduced in Scania where people in some parts of the landscape still talk about Karl XI as the Parish Burner.
Weeell. It's not quite the same thing. It's more accurate to call it a campaign of pacification. The reason for this rather brutal method has to do with the war that was going on in the same area at the same time. Farmers were threatened by both sides and many simply bet on the wrong horse. Execution was actually done with beheading and putting the body on display. The impalement was used on the officers and leaders of the guerilla forces. It's also important to keep in mind that the farmers of southern Sweden hated "friskyttar/snapphanar" because of their lawlessness and brutality towards the farmers. Charles XI was certainly not unhinged or insane. He offered and granted pardons both during and after the war. For example, if you had been threatened or "mislead, not disloyal" The burning and terror was mostly done in desperation. The supplies lines to the army was being attacked, plundered and slowed/stopped time and again. Charles might have been involved in more war and brutal fights but was in no way insane or dangerous to be around in that way.
@@lightdampsweetenough2065 , Charles XI methods were introduced after after the war was over and Denmark had been forced to hand over Scania to Sweden.
Johan III, Eriks half brother and the leader of the opposition that dethrone Erik, give her a smale province in Finland. So she can live out her life in reasonable comfort.
Well, I put it badly, but my point was that the term 'mad' covers a whole range of flavors of 'he ain't right in the head', and that schizophrenia would fit into that range. It' like saying 'he's from New Jersey, not America'
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The picture of Mary Queen of Scotts is actually a picture of Mary I of England. I know no one cares but it bugging me.
Yes. It bugs me too. Mary Queen of Scots was pretty as compared to sour faced Mary of England.
I've always thought she looked like Gerald R. Ford.
Same here
I do. It was bugging me as well.
Same. Correct is correct. ❤
Erik is now going through a re evaluation actually. He seems to be a lot better than his reputation. His younger brothers had all the reason to make him a sick villain, just to defend their own deeds. Always remember that it's the victor who gets to write the history.
Let's just conclude that the ADHD king had three messed up kids. Can't really behave if dad is the definition of someone in need of anger management.
Correct. There seems to be much to question in this, most likely, slanderous description.
@@peartree8338 He could have used some meth to calm down.
@peartree8388 It seems to me that Erik inherited the paranoia from his father but wasn't as strong as him. Gustav was better at being a brute. One positive thing about him though, was that he was a good father who cared about his children.
See also Richard III.
My take is that Eric was never mad but just did not do what those around him expected of him. He married a plain normal women and tried to live as he saw fit. It was called madness by the ones that detested it.
Wow! Mental illness even today It's hard to
heal. As hard on those around them as the
person suffering from it. 😔
Yes even harder when they have access to dungeons and daggers.
@@franushbloodaxe6408 Or unlimited access to modern media.
I live in Uppsala and have been in the castle many times. Some of the old clips from old movies in the video are areas I recognise.
This is the first I’ve heard an in depth account of his reign. We need a series dedicated to the lesser known royalty and nobility who suffered from mental illness. I’m sure there are plenty of other tales out there.
The Spanish monarchy was riddle with them, and a couple of Italian nobles as well. But the ones that really took the cake were the german princes and the Eastern European monarchs.
Swedish pea soup is made from dry peas, it's pale yellow in color, never green.
Green pea soup is made from dry peas as well but I'll take your word that Swedish pea soup is the color you say it is. Those pale yellow peas are used in what my English grammy called "hambone soup".
@@beeharbour My mate used to make pea and ham soup from the green dried peas, and it came out a pale green, but very definately green. Mmm, hungry now x
The pea soups i've made have allways been yellow in colour. I think it's species of peas you use decide the colour. Not that it matter that mutch. No matter what, your co-workers gonna refeare to you as a cemical weapon for a few days after you eat it.
Karin Mansdotter's sarcofage îs in the Turku Cathedral in Finland as she was of Finnish origin (Finland was part of Sweden then). The Archdiocese of Turku makes sure there are always fresh flowers in front of the sarcofage. There is a beautiful, romantic song about Erik and Karin spending "a night in beautiful May" on a sloop in the waters outside Stockholm, with Erik playing the lute to his bride. Charles later had Sigismund, the son of his bother John, deposed as King of Sweden and he took the throne himself as Charles IX. One of the most fashionable squares in Stockholm of today is called Stureplan.
For what transparent slithers of texts of history, from the volume, intensity and detail, there's sadly much truth to the romance. I wish they and the children could have been politically neutered but still have, you know, fresh water, food, running round a castle courtyard rather than wasting away in a dungeon for a mad kings vanity.
Karin Månsdotter got on living in Åbo in Finland, even returning to Sweden to visit the Dowager Queen Katarina Stenbock and current Queen Katarina Jagellonica
Wasn't Finland Swedish back then and we finally lost it in like 1809 or something to the Russians....
@@MattiasSvanberg1987 Yes it was. :)
@@MattiasSvanberg1987 Bo Jonsson Grip had Finland in a firm grip already in the 1300s. Somehow his clan went into stealth mode, and the big estates like Finland and Sweden were owned by institutions, on paper at least.
I think he angered the nobles a d siblings when he demoted them and they took revenge and spread rumors that he was mad. He feared that everyone was plotting against him because it was true. The nobles were always trying to vie for power and for ways to replace the king with themselves.
I thought the British royals had complicated lives!
Right!?
Not as bad as the Spanish, they locked Phillip IIs son up and fed and starved him until he passed away. Not that I blame them he was a total lunatic
Just because we play a good villian, doesn't mean we (all) are! Our royal family are saints compared with most other European royals.
They all have
It was good to be the King, until it wasn't good to be the King...!
Definitely a subject for one of Shakespeare's plays! Too bad the Bard never wrote about him.
No doubt. It did inspire a play by Strindberg, Erik XIV.
"We found the mad King dressed as a beggar and braught him back to--
-Oh-my-God-we-should-have-grabben-anny-sane-beggar-instead-of-the-real-mad-King!"
🙄
Crazy and cruel, always a bad combo. At first I thought he was just a jerk, but no. He was bat crap crazy.
Combined with unrestrained power it's a recipe for disaster.
Eric is only special in his family for being both cruel *and* crazy. His father and two half brothers mentioned in the video where all cruel and quick to anger, Charles being the worst in that regard. And if we are talking about crazy the video does not even mention his third half brother, Duke Magnus. Magnus was so mentaly ill that he could not be alone at anny time, as acording to legend he once jumped out of his room window from a castle into a moot because he claimed to have seen a mermeid swiming in it.
Erik XIV Rex. Died at Örbyhus castle 26 feb 1577. R.I.P. oh and by the way, Swedish pea soup is yummy and it is still served at that castle now without the arsenic.
Militärer äter soppan på torsdagar....men kommer att sluta med det nu när vi är med i Nato.😢😢😢
Bäste@,
Kan ju bero på att NATO är soppa nog!
@@Jens-tc5yz What does being in NATO have to do with stopping eating pea soup?
@@januarysson5633
Det blir mycket förändringar nu när vi är med i Nato. Vi ska dubbla våran försvarsbudget...åka på korståg jorden över och invadera länder som inte har gjort oss något ont...osv osv, ärtsoppa är ett litet problem dock lite sorgligt.😢😢
@@januarysson5633
Har svarat...men svaret är borta. Så blir det ofta när man talar sanning
Nice of Mr. Rogers to narrate. Very soothing.
The "insanity" would have been considered "normal" in other circumstances. Compare it with Henry VIII e.g.: You want to own my girl? You own the gallows, boy.
Thank you so much. Im a history nerd and lament often that there is so little about the nordic Kings and Queens. I'm talking of good and deep information, not 4 min snippets. Your video is wholesome and really great insight.
New information. But what Eric did to the Sture family is nothing compared to what the 18th c. Portuguese king Joseph I did to the noble Távora family. Horribly tortured all of them to death in public, destroyed their home and salted the ground.
Cool! Gonna check that one out.
Actually, his brother (Charles) was much worse when it came to violence. Eric was a Machiavellian king. It was not totally crazy to go after the Sture family. They were in power before the Wasa Family (Erics). Also, the Wasa family was new as kings. That's why they tried to find powerful queens to marry. When he killed the Stures he had a mental breakdown.
7:24 - What is the name of this TV show about Eric XIV? It has all the look and feel of a 1970s miniseries.
I think there's only Karin Månsdotter which is a Swedish film from the 1950s
@@CallemJayNZ Colorization perhaps? The 1954 Karin Månsdotter, also the only one I’ve found, is black and white.
It is a Tv play from 1974 called Eric XIV by August Strindberg. You can find it on SVT Play, but it is only availible in sweden though.
The music is too loud....it is distracting and unnecessary ...a shame because it's an interesting subject.
Even Charles VI (the Mad) of France only killed a couple of people, and that was accidental during a schizophrenia episode.
I always wonder if ppl like Erik and Ivan the terrible suffered from syphilis with all the unprotected sex going on.
Moral of the story:
Don't let a crazy person rule because history repeats itself...
Wow, the whole Wasa family after Gustav Erikson Wasa was more or less crazy, but King Eric is not as crazy nor brutal if you compare him to his father or Charles the Ninth. Gustav Wasa basically were our medievil version of Joseph Stalin who killed far more Swedes then what King Christian of Denmark,, whom he rebelled against who at that point was the rightful king of Sweden. Also, Charles made the ten commandments from the bible into actual Swedish law were each broken commandment was punishable by death which were mostly carried out by beheadings. It has been estimated if the church hadn´t pardoned a majority of the accused, the population of Sweden would have dropped to 1/3 during his reign. Eric was brutal, paranoid and mistrusting, but the only one who were spared of the "Wasa curse" was more or less just Sigismund. Also, since you didn´t mention it; the coffin he was put into was too small for him so they, IIRC, cut his feet off. When that was discovered, the people responsible was repremended and he was given a proper coffin fit for a king and moved to Västerås castle which held quite a bit of significance to his family. It in that castle, his father, according to legend, pushed the Danish back during his rebellion against the Kalmar Union. The castle was later rebuilt by his father from a small defensable outpost/battlement to a proper castle to defend the coastline from more incoming attacks and are as known as one of many Wasa Castles until this day - and king Eric still rests there until this day.
I am related to Agda Persdotter, Erik the 14th and their doughter Virginia!
In your dreams
@@MattiasSvanberg1987 Nope, according to DNA and genealogi.
I wouldn't brag about it!
I really appreciate this video, as Swedish history does not show up much in Anglophone platforms. I learned a lot and the presentation was engaging.
But I have to say, as late medieval/early modern monarchs go, Erik doesn't really seem that bad (sadly). For example, another one of Elizabeth I's unsuccessful suitors was Ivan the Terrible, and her father Henry VIII, though he was never regarded as crazy, was super paranoid and had lots of people executed on some very flimsy charges. But at the same time, it was also an era of religious upheaval and there really were a lot of spies and intrigue going on in all the courts of Europe. Just because these guys were paranoid doesn't mean someone wasn't out to get them. It was a time when life was very cheap.
So Lord Byron was not the only mad, bad and dangerous to know historical figure.
Proud to be Swedish🇸🇪
What for? 😊🥰😇
@tttyuhbbb9823 Because we have cool kings like this 😎
Reminds me a lot of Ivan the Terrible. Pea soup will kill you even without arsenic in it.
This must be a character to have inspired some of Opeth's songs/ lyrics.
Coincidentally, Nils Sture's father was involved in a massacre called the Stockholm Bloodbath. Google it.
Wow, just great info. Never want a king.
What a horrible story. He was not fit to be a king. He was sick.
What happened to his wife after she was moved? And their children?
His wife did get a smale province in Finland, and lived there until her death of old age. Of the children who survived to adulthood, the daughters were married off to various noblemen, and did live a normal life for there status.
There only living son Gustav, was forced into exiled by his uncle (now the new King of Sweden) and did have a miserable life, as either destitute, or as a politcal game piece, in the Polish or Russian court. Remember he was the "true heir" to the Swedish throne, and did die young in Russia.
Queen Mary 1st looks just like Dennis Waterman, an English actor !!! Even Philip of Spain (her husband) could'nt get interested in her, he couldn't wait to go back to Spain, and never came back....We used to sing in school about Mary never having a baby, "Aunty Mary had a canary up the leg of her drawers, when she farted, down it darted, and never went back no more !!!" Heheheheheheh
Ah yes, the poisoned pee soup, the cournerstoone of Sweden's gourmet history.
Together with fermented hering and the mardigrass bun with 2 pounds of butter that is suposed to have killed King Adolf Fredrik in 1771.
If I hade to choose I pick the later!-)
"pee soup, the cournerstoone of Sweden's gourmet history" - and there I was, thinking it was pea soup.
@tubensalat1453 messerschmitt
Infamy, infamy, theyve all got it infamy
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…they’ve all got it in-for-me.
Psychotic paranoia narcissistic we have one guy in the US that suffers from that. Wears heavy make up and blond yellow wig proclaims he is beautiful. I love pea soup.
I cannot comprehend how he jacked the Republican party and turned it into his own kkkult, the new Rethuglikkkan party. One ugly beast 😒🤡
Projection..!!!!
@@LuvBorderCollies Pea soup does that to you I guess.
@@belamoure He's the definition of a blithering idiot. He's like a walking parody of himself. If he wasn't so sick and vile, it would be hilarious. But he's just disgusting. A foul sociopath...he belongs on a locked ward for the criminally insane 🤡
That same person came to my mind as well
Elizabeth I of England was hopelessly in love with Errol Flynn.
My educated guess is that King Eric XIV never took a course called art appreciation in a higher education institution. Probable a lot of other things he was never taught at the time too on how to be upright. While both the poorest of the poor women around along with former wives during remarriage to a younger wife again were often not being allowed to teach on how to be upright.
His grandfader was exrcuted by King Christian the tyrant, His fader King Gustav, was a very ruthless and suspicious person. Erik was very well educated for his time, compare to his fader, and was a "enlightened monarch" and beleve in "divine right of kings" He did personaly lead a long war in the baltic, and to his horror, the high nobility had strengthened there power, at the expense of the power of the king, while he was away.
That was a crime in the kings mind, and it resulted in the (in)famus act, then he attack and killed a high noble with a knife, for the king at that moment, it was justice and a lawful execution. It seems he regretted what he did afterwards.The high nobles was naturally enrage (and the parlament to) by the act, and declared Erik mad, and placed Eriks younger half brother on the throne.
I have no idea what you speak about wifes, Erik himself did marry a low born women out of love, that to enrage the high nobles. But they couldn't stop it.
Yes it is Mary 1st. Dau of Henry VIII. Poor research makes you doubt everything else in this presentation.
Lets see what Americans are going to do with their modern King Eric 😁
You did not mention that prince John and his wife and son were kept prisoners in many years.
Fear the king that conjures 13 other imaginary kings before him bearing his name.
I wonder how arsenic and McDonald's hamburgers taste together
Well Erik was not kind when he accepted Ivan the terribles idea about sending his brother Johans wife Katarina Jagellonica to Russia. Ivan wanted to merry Katarina but it was Johan who married her.
When Ivan heard that Katarina and Johan lived at Gripsholm he wrote to Erik and demanded him to take Katarina from her husband and her little boy Sigismund.
This poor man needed help. Tragic he killed so many.
I ❤️ pea soup!
And so did he even all to the end.
Their is guessings that he was poisend.
It's not unimportant that Erik was the son of a usurper - and there would be more to follow in Sweden. His father had been elevated to the throne by leading a result against the combined monarchy.
Liberator from the tyranny of the filthy Danes, you mean
Son of a freedom fighter who chased away a murderer.
@@mrman9977 whatever the ethics, that was his situation and an element in his insecurity.
Someone who fights for freedom from a bloodthirsty murderer is not a usurper. You do not know what words mean.
@Kebabmaster5000 words aren't necessarily synonyms for good or bad. I don't think you know what usurper means and it's connotation in early modern Europe.
Well...in his defense
He was a Ginger...
Erik XIV's half-brother Karl XI was a more brutal king than Erik XIV. Charles XI used what is now known as ethnic cleansing and genocide to crush the opposition in newly occupied areas. For example, he burned down eleven parishes in Skåne to make the inhabitants of these areas obey him. He introduced impalement as a method of execution for people who opposed him. The impalement law was only introduced in Scania where people in some parts of the landscape still talk about Karl XI as the Parish Burner.
Weeell. It's not quite the same thing. It's more accurate to call it a campaign of pacification. The reason for this rather brutal method has to do with the war that was going on in the same area at the same time. Farmers were threatened by both sides and many simply bet on the wrong horse. Execution was actually done with beheading and putting the body on display. The impalement was used on the officers and leaders of the guerilla forces.
It's also important to keep in mind that the farmers of southern Sweden hated "friskyttar/snapphanar" because of their lawlessness and brutality towards the farmers. Charles XI was certainly not unhinged or insane. He offered and granted pardons both during and after the war. For example, if you had been threatened or "mislead, not disloyal" The burning and terror was mostly done in desperation. The supplies lines to the army was being attacked, plundered and slowed/stopped time and again.
Charles might have been involved in more war and brutal fights but was in no way insane or dangerous to be around in that way.
@@lightdampsweetenough2065 , Charles XI methods were introduced after after the war was over and Denmark had been forced to hand over Scania to Sweden.
@@riddick7082 No. It started during the war and continued after.And the methods were certainly arbitrary but pretty standard.
You are mixing Carl IX, the brother of Erik, and Carl XI. Carl XI lived almost a hundred years later and was no Wasa king.
@@ulfegonwiahl2063, så kanske det är, skall kolla upp det.
Death by Pea Soup
Nicknamed 'Eric Bloodhead'.
Due to his red hair.
I'm into astrology too.
Oh lord. The butchering of Scandinavian names is cringe worthy. But I do love your productions. So keep it up 👍
Allegedly
Sweden had buses then?
what happened to his wife?
Johan III, Eriks half brother and the leader of the opposition that dethrone Erik, give her a smale province in Finland. So she can live out her life in reasonable comfort.
😅Hed have been 😊😊😊 elected President of the US in 2024.
Condescending and subjective presentation.
so make a better one
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But what was the fate of his Queen?
She went to live in Finland (which was Swedish back then, until we lost it to the Russians in 1809).
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Thank you.
I am assuming she remained imprissoned until she died?
@@leadingauctions8440 She passed away at 61 and peacefully, not jailed
History Exposé The mad butcher of history
I mean he sounds schizophrenic, not "mad".
I'm curious what you think constitutes 'mad'
Yeah, it's not like he went on a full-on murder spree in that castle, is it...
Well, I put it badly, but my point was that the term 'mad' covers a whole range of flavors of 'he ain't right in the head', and that schizophrenia would fit into that range. It' like saying 'he's from New Jersey, not America'
He was gay, Gary Cooper?!
👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐SCHISOFRENIA?
Kept getting visuals of Hillary the 14th.
And we all are grey rocks as what the style at the time.
Bipolar
This presenter is living in clown world telling fake stories to his sucked in watchers..
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