Sweden, or the Kingdom of the Swedes

revolted to Margaret, Queen of Denmark and Norway, who was contending with Albert for the empire. Afterward, the kingdom of Sweden remained united for some time with the Danes through the established union of the three kingdoms, until the kings, unmindful of the laws sworn to at their coronation, and having neglected and spurned the Swedes, placed Danes in charge of the fortresses and the administration. Wherefore the Swedes and Norwegians, seeing themselves despised and held in contempt, appointed Charles Knutsson, a man conspicuous among the Swedish nobility and excelling in much experience of affairs, as King of Sweden and Norway. The Norwegians, then lured by the promises of Christian I, King of Denmark, submitted themselves to his rule. In Sweden, the Sture family succeeded Charles as if they were viceroys, until the grandfather of the modern King of Sweden, Gustav I, descending from the ancient lineage of the kings of Sweden, with Herculean virtue completely liberated the kingdom from the power of the Danes; the Swedes also, mindful of the benefit received, appointed him and his male descendants heirs to the kingdom.