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May 1496 A.D. Gustavus 1, Vasa, Born, Lutheran Churchman
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way: http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/birthdays/05-12.html
Gustavus I Vasa (1496 to 1560)
Lutheran
Reform King Founds the House of Vasa.
Birth of Gustavus I, Vasa, who founded the House of
Vasa when elected king of Sweden in 1523. The family held direct possession of
the throne until 1654. Even before Sweden's reformation, which took place under
him, he had had some Lutheran training. He became king after leading a
rebellion against Denmark's King Christian II who had butchered his father and
several other nobles in cold blood at the Bloodbath of Stockholm. In 1559
missionaries were sent by the newly established Lutheran Church to the
formerly-despised pagan Laplanders.
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