Swedish Livonia
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Swedish Livonia Svenska Livland | |||||||
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| 1629–1721 | |||||||
Gustav II Adolf | |||||||
• 1720–1751 | Frederick I | ||||||
Governor-General | |||||||
• 1622–1628 | Jacob De la Gardie | ||||||
• 1696–1702 | Erik Dahlberg | ||||||
| Legislature | Diet | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Conquered by Sweden | 1621 | ||||||
• Truce of Altmark | 25 September 1629 | ||||||
• Treaty of Oliva | 23 April 1660 | ||||||
• Great Northern War | 1700–1721 | ||||||
| 1713 | |||||||
• Treaty of Nystad | 30 August 1721 | ||||||
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| Today part of | Estonia Latvia | ||||||
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Swedish Livonia (
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 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]
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)
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Duchies of Livonia and Courland on the map of Frederik de Witt (1616–1698), modified and published by Pieter Mortier in 1705.
Military
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)
- 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
- Rise of Sweden as a Great Power
- Swedish Empire
- Realm of Sweden
- Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721)
- Estonia under Swedish rule
- Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek
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