Johann Patkul
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Johann Reinhold Patkul was a Livonian nobleman, politician and agitator of Baltic German extraction. Born as a subject to the Swedish Crown, he protested against the manner of King Charles XI of Swede
Portrait, 1700s
Execution of Johann Reinhold Patkul at Kazimierz Biskupi, Poland
Treaty of Altranstädt (1706)
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The Treaty of Altranstädt was concluded between Charles XII of Sweden and Augustus the Strong of Saxony and Poland–Lithuania, on 13 October 1706, during the Great Northern War. Augustus had to renounc
Johann Patkul
…following year he was detained first in Sonnenstein, then in Königstein (both in Saxony), before Charles XII forced Augustus to extradite him by the Treaty of Altranstädt in late 1706. Patkul spent another year in Swedish detention before Charles XII had him broken on the wheel and decapitated. Patkul was born in prison…
Charles XII of Sweden in Altranstädt 1706-1707, by Johan David Swartz
Charles XII of Sweden