January 13th 1746 \u2013\u00a0 March 29th 1792<\/p>\n
He became a Freemason in 1780, and introduced the Rite of Strict Observance<\/a> into Sweden. That year, he named his brother, the Duke of S\u00f6dermanland<\/a> (later Charles XIII<\/a>), to the office of Grand Master for the Grand Lodge of Sweden<\/a>. The Grand Lodge conferred upon him the title “Vicarius Salomonis” (Vicar of Solomon).<\/p>\n \n King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden<\/a> and Queen Louise Ulrika<\/a>, a sister of King and Brother Frederick the Great<\/a> of Prussia<\/a>, and a first cousin of Empress Catherine the Great<\/a> of Russia by reason of their common descent from Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin<\/a>, and his wife Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n In 1782, Gustav III was the first neutral head of state in the world to recognize the United States during its war for independence from Great Britain.<\/sup><\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Famous-Freemason-Gustav-III.png” alt=”Famous Freemason Gustav III” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brother King Gustav III January 13th 1746 \u2013\u00a0 March 29th 1792 He became a Freemason in 1780, and introduced the Rite of Strict Observance into Sweden. That year, he named his brother, the Duke of S\u00f6dermanland (later Charles XIII), to the office of Grand Master for the Grand Lodge of Sweden. The Grand Lodge conferred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[42],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3259","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-politicians"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3259\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Gustav_III_statue_Skeppsbron\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/800px-Gustav_III_statue_Skeppsbron_March_2007.jpg?resize=800%2C1000&ssl=1\")
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