The last king of the Swedish Vasa Dynasty (1521-1654) Christina Augusta (1626-1689 living, 1632-1654 reigned) in the "Northern Lion" Gustav II Adolf (1594-1632 living, 1611-1632 reigned) was killed in the Battle of Lützen in November 1632 (the third stage of the "Thirty Years War", where the King of Sweden led the Allied Forces of Sweden and the Protestant princes and the Holy Roman Empire led by Wallenstein) Later, his 6-year-old daughter Christina succeeded to the throne, assisted by Prime Minister Axel Oxenshina. In 1650, when she was 18 years old, she was crowned in power, even though courtiers often admonish her and her outstanding cousin. Prince Carl married and performed the duty of giving birth to an heir, but she believed that marriage could never coexist with love, and she refused to marry; she abdicated on June 5, 1654, and gave the throne to Carl, called Carl X Gus Tuft (Palatinate king 1654-1660 reigned); after her abdication, she traveled to many places in Europe and settled in Rome most of the time; died of illness in 1689 and was buried in the tomb of the Pope in St. Peter's Basilica (currently only three women Enjoy this honor); In 1702, Pope Clement XI ordered a monument to Christina (picture 9) to commemorate her conversion to Catholicism and thank her for her many contributions to Roman culture. To this day, Italians still refer to the time she lived in Rome as "Christina's seventeenth century."
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