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sweden As the second king of the Vasa Dynasty, he conquered Estonia , including Reval, but was deposed by his half-brothers due to his insanity and harsh treatment of nobles late in his reign.

The only son of Gustav I Vasa, the father of modern Sweden , and Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, he received Småland, including Kalmar , as his fiefdom in 1557 and lived at Kalmar Castle.

In 1561, he ascended to the throne at Uppsala Cathedral in a coronation ceremony that was one of the most spectacular in Swedish history . At the same time, Arbo signed a decree abolishing all the powerful authority as dukes granted to his half-brothers. In particular, his younger brother John , who had married Princess Katazina Jagiellonka, sister of King of Poland and Grand Duke Sigismund II August of Lithuania against his will, was imprisoned in Gripsholm Castle and at the same time confiscated his Principality of Finland .

In the same year, the Finnish admiral Klas Kristersson Horn (1517-1566) was dispatched to Reval to occupy northern Estonia on the condition that the local ruling class, the Baltic Germans, be granted privileges . This policy of expansion led to conflict with King Frederick II of Denmark , and he declared war in 1563 , resulting in the Seven Years' Northern War . Eric​

The Swedish nobility, outraged by the harsh treatment and insanity of the Sture family and his marriage to Karin Monsdoter, a commoner, joined forces with his younger brothers Johan and Karl to dethrone him in 1568. John is the King of Sweden He ascended the throne as King John III .

His dethroned line was deprived of the Swedish throne, and Eric XIV died at Jörbihus in 1577. An autopsy on his body later concluded that he had been poisoned, and details of his poisoning are on display at the Swedish Museum of History in Stockholm .