Swedish Livonia

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Swedish Livonia

Svenska Livland

1629–1721

Coat of arms (18th century) of Livonia

Coat of arms
(18th century)

Baltic provinces of Swedish Empire in the 17th century.

Baltic provinces of Swedish Empire in the 17th century.

Status

Dominion of the Swedish Empire

Capital

Common languages

Swedish, Estonian, Latvian, Livonian, Low German (Latin as lingua franca)

Religion

• 1611–1632

Gustav II Adolf

• 1720–1751

Governor-General

• 1622–1628

Jacob De la Gardie

• 1696–1702

Erik Dahlberg

Legislature

History

• Conquered by Sweden

1621

• Truce of Altmark

25 September 1629

• Treaty of Oliva

23 April 1660

• Great Northern War

1700–1721

• Conquered by Russia

1713

• Treaty of Nystad

30 August 1721

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Duchy of Livonia

Riga Governorate

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Swedish Livonia (Swedish: Svenska Livland) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1629 until 1721. The territory, which constituted the southern part of modern Estonia (including the island of Ösel ceded by Denmark after the Treaty of Brömsebro) and the northern part of modern Latvia (the Vidzeme region), represented the conquest of the major part of the Polish-Lithuanian Duchy of Livonia during the 1600–1629 Polish-Swedish War. Parts of Livonia and the city of Riga were under Swedish control as early as 1621 and the situation was formalized in the Truce of Altmark 1629, but the whole territory was not ceded formally until the Treaty of Oliva in 1660. The minority part of the Wenden Voivodeship retained by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was renamed the Inflanty Voivodeship ("Livonian Principality"), which today corresponds to the Latgale region of Latvia.

Riga was the second largest city in the Swedish Empire at the time. Together with other Baltic Sea dominions, Livonia served to secure the Swedish dominium maris baltici. In contrast to Swedish Estonia, which had submitted to Swedish rule voluntarily in 1561 and where traditional local laws remained largely untouched, the uniformity policy was applied in Swedish Livonia under Karl XI of Sweden: serfdom was abolished, peasants were offered education as well as military, administrative or ecclesiastical careers, and nobles had to transfer domains to the king in the Great Reduction.

The territory in turn was conquered by the Russian Empire during the Great Northern War and, following the Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia in 1710, formed Riga Governorate. Formally, it was ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad in 1721, together with Swedish Estonia and Swedish Ingria.^{[citation needed]}

Kings and Queen of Livonia

the House of Vasa

Gustav II Adolf the Great (Gustavs II Ādolfs Lielais) (1611 – 1632)
Christina (Kristīna) (1632 – 1654)

House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken

Charles X Gustav (Kārlis X Gustavs) (1654 –1660)
Charles XI (Kārlis XI) (1660 – 1697)
Charles XII (Kārlis XII) (1697 – 1718)
Ulrika Eleonora (Ulrika Elenora) (1719 – 1720)

House of Hesse

Frederick I (Frederiks I) (1720 – 1751)

Governors-general

The dominion was ruled by appointed governors-general, but retained its own diet.

Jacob De la Gardie (1622–1628)
Gustaf Horn (1628–1629)
Johan Skytte (1629–1633)
Nils Assersson Mannersköld (1633–1634)
Bengt Oxenstierna (1634–1643)
Herman Wrangel (1643)
Erik Eriksson Ryning (1644)
Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1645–1647)
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1649–1651)
Gustaf Horn (1652–1653)
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1655–1657)
Axel Lillie (1661)
Bengt Oxenstierna (1662–1665)
Clas Åkesson Tott (the younger) (1665–1671)
Fabian von Fersen (1671–1674)
Krister Klasson Horn (1674–1686)
Jacob Johan Hastfer (1687–1695)
Erik Dahlberg (1696–1702)
Carl Gustaf Frölich (1702–1706)
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1706–1709)
Henrik Otto Albedyll (1709)
Niels Jonsson Stromberg af Clastorp (1709–1710)

Duchies of Livonia and Courland on the map of Frederik de Witt (1616–1698), modified and published by Pieter Mortier in 1705.

Military

Coat of arms of Swedish Livonia (1660)

Swedish infantry and cavalry regiments

Infantry regiments

Garnisonsregementet i Riga (Garrison Regiment in Riga)
Guvenörsregementet i Riga (Governor's Regiment in Riga)
Livländsk infanteribataljon I (Livonian Infantry Battalion I)
Livländsk infanteribataljon II (Livonian Infantry Battalion II)
Livländsk infanteribataljon III (Livonian Infantry Battalion III)
Livländsk infanteribataljon IV (Livonian Infantry Battalion IV)
Livländskt infanteriregemente I (Livonian Infantry Regiment I)
Livländskt infanteriregemente II (Livonian Infantry Regiment II)
Livländskt infanteriregemente III (Livonian Infantry Regiment III)
Livländskt infanteriregemente IV (Livonian Infantry Regiment IV)
Livländskt infanteriregemente V (Livonian Infantry Regiment V)

Cavalry regiments

Laurentzens fridragoner (Wolter Wolfgang von Laurentzen's Free Dragoons)
Lewenhaupts frikompani (Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt's Free Company)
Adelsfanan i Livland och Ösel (Livonian and Öselian Banner of Nobles)
Livländsk dragonskvadron I (Livonian Dragoon Squadron I)
Livländsk dragonskvadron II (Livonian Dragoon Squadron II)
Livländskt dragonregemente I (Livonian Dragoon Regiment I)
Livländskt dragonregemente II (Livonian Dragoon Regiment II)
Öselska lantdragonskvadronen (Öselian County Dragoon Squadron)

Temporary cavalry regiments:

Livländska ståndsdragonbataljonen (Livonian Rank Dragoon Battalion)
Öselska ståndsdragonbataljonen (Ösel Rank Dragoon Battalion)

See also

References

Andrejs Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic States, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 105ff

Further reading

Heikki Pihlajamäki. Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia, ca. 1630–1710: A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe. Northern World Series. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2017

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