Klaus Fleming
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Baron Klaus Eriksson Fleming was a Finnish-born member of the Swedish nobility and admiral, who played an important role in Finnish and Swedish history during the rise of Sweden as a Great Power. He w
Duke Karl Insulting the Corpse of Klaus Fleming, Albert Edelfelt, 1878. Fleming's wife Ebba Stenbock on the right.
Sigismund III Vasa
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Sigismund III Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Zealo
Klaus Fleming
…admiral, who played an important role in Finnish and Swedish history during the rise of Sweden as a Great Power. He was a trustee of kings John III and Sigismund Vasa. His wife was Ebba Stenbock. Fleming's father – a grandson of Björn Ragvaldsson – was the Councilor of State Erik Fleming (1487–1548), also a remarkable…
Portrait by Pieter Soutman, c. 1624
John III, his wife Catherine Jagiellon and young Sigismund imprisoned at Gripsholm, as imagined in an 1859 painting by Józef Simmler
Sigismund in his youth, 1585
Chancellor Jan Zamoyski staunchly opposed the pro-Habsburg alliance.