Charles VIII of Sweden
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King of Sweden and Norway
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles VIII , contemporaneously known as Charles II and called Charles I in Norwegian context, was king of Sweden and king of Norway . Regnal name Charles was the second Swedish king by the name of Charles . Charles VIII is a posthumous invention, counting backwards from Charles IX who adopted his numeral according to a fictitious history of Sweden. Six others before Charles VII are unknown to any sources before Johannes Magnus's 16th century book , and are considered his invention. Charles was the first Swedish monarch of the name to actually use a regnal number as Charles II , on his wife's tombstone at Vadstena.
