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186 A History of Sweden
Christina’s Departure. Immediately after this, Chris-
tina left her native land. On the way to Rome, the
daughter of Gustavus Adolphus renounced the faith
for which her father had laid down his life, and es-
poused the Roman faith. In Rome she expected to
gain the happiness she had pictured to herself. But
she could not flee from herself, or from her restless,
fickle nature. She made two subsequent visits to her
native land in the vain hope of having her title to the
Swedish throne restored. These visits were of short
duration, as she was forbidden her Catholic worship.
She returned to Rome, where she died April 19, 1689.
She was buried in St. Peter’s, in Rome.
CHAPTER XI
REIGN OF CHARLES X GUSTAVUS, 1654-1660
A. INTRODUCTION
The Palatinate Family. With the abdication of
Christina/ in 1654, the House of Vasa came to an end.
The new Family received its name from the German
Palatinate of Zweibrucken. During the Thirty Years’
War, Count Palatine John Casimir and his wife Cather-
ine, sister of Gustavus Adolphus, driven from their
home in Germany, found refuge in Sweden. Here their
son Charles Gustavus was born and grew up in the
same simple manner as his mother and his uncle, Gus-
tavus Adolphus, had done before him.
Though the family derived its name from Germany,
Charles Gustavus was in language, sympathies, and
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