House of Vasa

Notable figures of the house

Sigismund III Vasa Vasa

King of Poland

1566 – 1632

John II Casimir Vasa Vasa

King of Poland

1609 – 1672

Władysław IV Vasa Vasa

King of Poland

1595 – 1648

Karol Ferdynand Vasa Vasa

Prince-Bishop

1613 – 1655

John Albert Vasa Vasa

bishop of Krakow

1612 – 1634

Kettil Karlsson Vasa

Bishop of Linköping

1433 – 1465

Christina of Sweden Vasa

Monarch of Sweden

1626 – 1689

Constance of Austria Vasa

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1588 – 1631

Marie Louise Gonzaga Vasa

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1611 – 1667

Princess Anna of Sweden Vasa

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1568 – 1625

Anna of Sweden Vasa

regent

1545 – 1610

Anna Catherine Constance Vasa Vasa

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1619 – 1651

The story of this house

# House of Vasa The Vasa line encompasses forty-two individuals born across two centuries, from 1433 to 1652, spanning a geographic range that stretched across central and northern Europe. Warsaw and Stockholm emerge as the dominant birthplaces, accounting for fourteen births combined, while Kraków, Graz, and Paris appear less frequently in the record. This geographic distribution reflects a family presence across multiple kingdoms and regions during a transformative period in European history. The line's demographic profile shows considerable variation in longevity, with members living an average of forty-four years, though some individuals reached eighty-seven—a notable achievement for the era. The two-century span of births suggests multiple generations maintaining the Vasa name and identity through successive centuries of political and social change. The concentration of births in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, thinning toward the mid-seventeenth century, indicates the line's particular prominence during the early modern period.

Those who came before

1626–1689

1588–1631

1611–1667

1568–1597

1516–1551

1540–1627

1568–1625

1545–1610

1619–1651

1566–1633

1650–1651

1596–1618

1564–1566

1562–1624

1593–1600

1594–1632

1566–1632

1537–1592