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Gustav III of Sweden
portrait by Alexander Roslin (1775)

Gustav III of Sweden ( Stockholm , 24 January 1746 - 29 March 1792 ) was King of Sweden and Prince of Finland 12 February 1771 until his death. Son of Adolphus Frederick of Sweden and Ulrike Louise of Prussia , sister of Frederick the Great , in 1766 he married Sophie Magdalene of Denmark , daughter of Frederick V of Denmark , died in 1813. Gustav III had two children: Gustav IV Adolf King of Sweden and Charles born in 1782 , Duke of Smland, who died in 1783.

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Gustav III, Prince Frenchified player and philosophers, succeeded his father Adolphus Frederick in 1771 and carried out a coup in August 1772 when the country is preparing to descend into anarchy. Backed by the army and the people he arrested members of the Riksdag, and the rad, which had the power since the constitution of 1719. He reigns in enlightened despot by reorganizing the justice and finance, abolishing torture , promoting primary education, improving the situation of peasants in initiating the consolidation of land, and establishing free trade in grain.

Desiring to strengthen its ties with France and Sweden to give a colonial empire in 1784 , Gustav III is the transfer by France on the island of St. Barthelemy cons right warehouse in Gothenburg. Swedes make St. Bartholomew a free port in 1785. In tribute to the King of Sweden, the main town of the island (The Shroud) is renamed Gustavia to 1787.

In 1789 , it strengthens the absolutist to fight against the nobility by the Act of Union and Security, which gives all Swedes equal rights, including access to public office.

The good relations he had with the France were broken during the French Revolution. On 16 March 1792 , the nobility instigated a conspiracy and was murdered by Ankarstrm. His son Gustav IV Adolf succeeded him.

He was a member of Freemasonry. He had entered the dressing room in 1780. ^Genealogy

Gustav III of Sweden belongs to the first branch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, after the first branch of the House of Oldenburg , The elder branch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp died in 1877 , for males with the death of Gustave Ittenbourg, Prince of Vasa, eldest son of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden , in 1907 , by women, with the death of Princess Caroline of Vasa, wife of King Albert of Saxony.