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John II Casimir

Type Figure Region Poland Time 1609–1672 Also known as John Casimir Vasa

John II Casimir was the last Vasa king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth;…

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  1. 1648–1660Kraków · Lesser PolandSucceeded in 1648 after his brother's heir died in infancy, immediately facing the Deluge, with Khmelnytsky's uprising intertwined with Russian and Swedish invasions; royal authority was repeatedly weakened by the nobility's liberum veto.
  2. 1661–1668Warsaw · MasoviaIn the 1660s he pushed for peace negotiations with Russia, the Cossacks, and Sweden; after the 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo the eastern situation temporarily stabilized, but amid sejm factional strife, fiscal exhaustion, and disappointment over reform he abdicated in Warsaw in September 1668.
  3. 1668–1672Saint-Germain-en-Laye · Île-de-FranceAfter abdication he entered a French monastery, briefly serving as abbot; he died of illness at Saint-Germain-en-Laye on December 16, 1672, ending Vasa rule in Poland.

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