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Charles XIV John of Sweden
King of Sweden and Norway between 1818–1844. Prince of Ponte Corvo 1806–1810 and French field marshal (1763–1844)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 January 1763
- Died
- 8 March 1844
- Conflict
- Napoleonic Wars, War in the Vendée, Battle of Fleurus, Italian Campaign of 1796-1797, War of the Second Coalition, War of the Third Coalition, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, Battle of Halle, Battle of Mohrungen, Battle of Wagram, Walcheren Campaign
- Place of birth
- Pau
- Place of death
- Stockholm Palace, The Royal Court Parish
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Charles, Karl, Jean-Baptiste, Johann
- Father
- Jean Henri Bernadotte
- Mother
- Jeanne de Saint-Jean
- Spouse
- Désirée Clary
- Child
- Oscar I of Sweden
- Sibling
- Jean-Évangéliste Bernadotte, Karl Adolf, Lovisa Hedvig of Sweden, Carl August, Crown Prince of Sweden
- Occupation
- monarch, politician, military commander, soldier
- Position held
- Minister of War, Monarch of Sweden, Monarch of Norway
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- Lutheranism, Catholicism
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Marshal of the Empire, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Marshal of France, list of names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, Order of the Black Eagle, Military Order of St. Henry, Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Order of St. Andrew, Royal Order of the Seraphim, Order of the Elephant, Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (1813)
- archives at
- Louis Round Wilson Library, Defence Historical Service
- birth name
- Jean Bernadotte
- cause of death
- stroke
- described by source
- Hamburg Biographies, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of Indian Biography, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- member of family
- House of Bernadotte
- military branch
- French Armed Forces
- military, police or special rank
- Marshal of the Empire, Sergeant, junior lieutenant, colonel, brigadier general, Q19918506, generalissimo
- name in native language
- Karl XIV. Johan, Charles XIV Jean de Suède, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- place of burial
- Bernadotte crypt
- residence
- Stockholm Palace
- stepparent
- Charles XIII of Sweden
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles XIV John
Connected on Wikidata
Appears in
Subject of
- Bernadotte, John Baptiste Julius
- Charles XIV John as Crown Prince of Sweden
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Charles XIV.
- The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules
- Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules
- The New International Encyclopædia/Charles XIV. John
- Stockholm
- Karl Johann und ein deutscher Mann
- Karl XIV Johan (1763-1844)
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