Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Ancestry of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Bevare Gud var kung, Convention of Moss, Crown of Eric XIV, Duchies in Sweden, Eriksgata, Guadeloupe Fund, John Ambler, Kalmar Union, King in Council (Sweden), Kungssangen, Line of succession to the Swedish throne, List of heirs to the Swedish throne, List of Swedish monarchs, Loyal toast, Monarchy of Sweden, Riddarholmen Church, Royal Court of Sweden, Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs, Semi-legendary kings of Sweden, Stones of Mora, Swedish Act of Succession, Swedish Royal Regalia, Thomas Sjoberg (journalist), Uppsala od. Excerpt: This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden, including regents and viceroys of the Kalmar Union, up to the present time. The earliest record of what is generally considered to be a Swedish king appears in Tacitus' work Germania, c. 100 AD (the king of the Suiones). However, due to scant and unreliable sources before the 11th century, lists of succession traditionally start in the 10th century with king Olof Skotkonung, and his father Eric the Victorious, who also were the first Swedish kings to be baptized. There are, however, lists of Swedish pagan monarchs with far older dates, but in many cases these kings appear in sources of disputed historical reliability. These records notably deal with the legendary House of Yngling, and based on the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, Erik Segersall and Olof Skotkonung have often been classified as belonging to the Swedish house of Ynglings. However, according to Icelandic sources this line of kings was broken (see Ingjald and Ivar Vidfamne), and trace them back to Sigurd Ring and Ragnar Lodbrok (whom Saxo, on the other hand, considered to belong to the House of Yngling). As there is no evidence that Eric and Olof ever used the Yngling name themselves, modern...