Polish–Swedish union
Polish–Swedish union | |||||||||||||
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| 1592–1599 | |||||||||||||
| Motto: "Pro iure et populo" "Cor regis in manu Domini" "Coelitus sublima dantur" | |||||||||||||
Map of the Polish–Swedish union (dark green) with vassal states (light green) at its greatest territorial extent in 1596. | |||||||||||||
| Common languages | Latin, Polish, Swedish, and Finnish | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||||||
• 1592–1599 | Sigismund III Vasa | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||||
| 17 November 1592 | |||||||||||||
| 18 May 1595 | |||||||||||||
• Riksdag of 1595 | 30 September 1595 | ||||||||||||
| February 1598 | |||||||||||||
| 24 July 1599 | |||||||||||||
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The Polish–Swedish union was a short-lived personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Sweden between 1592 and 1599. It began when Sigismund III Vasa, elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, was crowned King of Sweden following the death of his father John III. The union ended following a civil war in Sweden in which he lost the crown to his uncle, who eventually became Charles IX. Sigismund afterwards returned to Warsaw and pursued a war against his former realm.