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Swedish royalty
House of Holstein-Gottorp
Adolf Frederick
Children
Gustav III
Charles XIII
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland
Princess Sophia Albertina
Gustav III
Children
Gustav IV Adolf
Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland
Gustav IV Adolf
Children
Crown Prince Gustav, Prince of Vasa
Sophie, Grand Duchess of Baden
Prince Carl Gustaf, Duke of Småland
Princess Amalia
Cecilia, Grand Duchess of Oldenburg
Grandchildren:
Prince Louis
Carola, Queen of Saxony
Charles XIII
Children
Princess Louise Hedvig
Prince Carl Adolf, Duke of Värmland

The House of Holstein-Gottorp, a cadet branch of the Oldenburg dynasty, ruled Sweden between 1751 and 1818, and Norway from 1814 to 1818.

In 1743, Adolf Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp was elected crown prince of Sweden as a Swedish concession to Russia, a strategy for achieving an acceptable peace after the disastrous war of the same year. He became King of Sweden in 1751.

King Gustav III, Adolf Frederick's eldest son, was enthusiastic that through his great-great-grandmother their dynasty descended from the royal House of Vasa. He expressed wishes that their house be known as Vasa, as the new royal house of Vasa and the continuation of the original. There was no effective way to force this change. Historians have not agreed with Gustav's desires, and the house is always referred to as Holstein-Gottorp.

In 1809, Gustav III's son King Gustav IV Adolf was deposed following the loss of Finland, and the dynasty disappeared from Swedish history with the death of his uncle King Charles XIII in 1818. In 1810, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (later Charles XIV John), a Marshal of France, was elected crown prince, and became the founder of the next and current Swedish dynasty, the House of Bernadotte.

In 1836, Gustav, the son of the deposed Gustav IV Adolf, was created Prince of Vasa in Austria (written Wasa). However, the use of that name ceased when the prince's only surviving child, his daughter Carola, died without children.

The marriage of the future King Gustaf V to Princess Victoria of Baden in 1881 united the ruling House of Bernadotte with a descendant of the House of Holstein-Gottorp since Victoria was a great-granddaughter of the deposed Gustav IV Adolf.

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Royal houseHouse of Holstein-GottorpCadet branch of the House of Oldenburg
Preceded byHouse of Hesse Ruling house of the Kingdom of Sweden
1751–1818
Succeeded byHouse of Bernadotte
Preceded byHouse of Oldenburg Ruling house of the Kingdom of Norway
1814–1818
Royal houses of Finland
Royal houses of Norway
Royal houses of Sweden
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