Monarchs of Other Europe

14 monarchs and royal houses of Other Europe, listed alphabetically with title and reign.

King of Sweden since 1973, descendant of the Napoleonic marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, elected crown prince in 1810. Under the...

Ruler of an empire on which the sun never set, inheriting Spain, the Netherlands, Austria and the Americas, where conquistadors...

Viking king of Denmark who conquered England in 1016 and ruled a North Sea empire of England, Denmark, Norway and parts of...

King of Spain since the abdication of Juan Carlos in June 2014. An Olympic sailor at Barcelona 1992, he has steered the monarchy...

The red bearded emperor who sought to restore imperial power in Italy, destroying Milan in 1162 before the Lombard League...

Philosopher king of Prussia, flute player and correspondent of Voltaire, who seized Silesia and held it through the Seven Years...

The Lion of the North, who turned Sweden into a great power and entered the Thirty Years War in 1630 to defend the Protestant...

King of Denmark and Norway who converted to Christianity and raised the Jelling stones with his father, monuments called the...

King of Norway, of the Danish Glucksburg line invited to the Norwegian throne in 1905. A keen yachtsman, he sailed for Norway at...

The dynasty that began as Swiss counts and grew to hold the Holy Roman empire almost continuously from 1438, plus Spain and its...

Queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon united Spain. Their forces took Granada in 1492, ending Muslim rule in...

The first woman to rule Denmark under the 1953 Act of Succession, taking her regnal number in honor of the 14th century Margrethe...

The only woman to rule the Habsburg lands in her own right, her accession triggered the War of the Austrian Succession and cost...

Saxon duke and king who defeated the Magyars at the Lechfeld in 955, ending their raids, and was crowned emperor in Rome in 962...