Full name and title: Crown Prince Charles Jean
Born: January 26, 1763 (Pau, Kingdom of France)
Died: March 8, 1844 (Stockholm, Sweden)

Oscar’s father, he was born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte in Pau, France, in 1763. A Marshal under Napoleon, he was elected Crown Prince of Sweden in 1810. Renamed Charles Jean, he later became King Charles XIV Jean. Ruthless, brilliant, and politically shrewd, he founded the Bernadotte dynasty that rules Sweden to this day.

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