Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1599 to 1660. Following his abdication Sigismund continued to claim the throne from 1599 to his death in 1632. After his death the claim was continued by his sons, Vladislaus IV (from 1632 to 1648) and John II Casimir (from 1648 to 1660). The Swedish monarchs have been of the House of Bernadotte since 1818, based on the Swedish Act of Succession of 1810. The Constitution of 1809 assumed that the monarch would appoint his Cabinet as he saw fit, but growing calls for democratisation during the end of the 19th century made such an idea impossible to sustain. 1917 marks the end of any real political power for the Swedish monarch. The Constitution of 1974 codifies this development by removing all decision-making powers from the monarch, making it both de facto and de jure a ceremonial position, and today the Government has the chief executive power, not the king. In 1980, the rule of succession was changed from agnatic to absolute primogeniture, to the benefit of Princess Victoria (born 1977), the current heir apparent. Monarchs and regents of Sweden House of Munsö |width=auto|Eric the Victorious (Erik Segersäll) 970 – 995||Coin (disputed)||||||Died of illness in Old Uppsala 995, aged about 50 |- |width=auto|Olof Skötkonung 995 – 1022|||| 980, son of Eric the Victorious||Estrid of the Obotrites|| 1022, aged about 42 |- |width=auto|Anund Jacob (Anund Jakob) 1022–1050 ||||25 July 1008 or 1010 son of Olof Skötkonung and Estrid of the Obotrites||Gunnilda (?) || 1050, aged about 40 |- |width=auto|Emund the Old (Emund den gamle) 1050–1060|| ||Illegitimate son of Olof Skötkonung||Astrid (?) || 1060 |- |} House of Stenkil and contemporary House of Stenkil |bgcolor=#00ffaa|Stenkil (Stenkil Ragnvaldsson) 1060–1066|| ||Probably from Västergötland, son of Ragnvald Ulfsson (according to Hervarar saga)||"Ingamoder"House of Munsö||Died of illness in "Svitjod", 1066 |- |Eric and Eric 1066–1067|| || || ||1067, died in battle against each other for the throne |- |bgcolor=#00ffaa|Halsten Stenkilsson (Halsten) 1067–1070|| || 1050 son of Stenkil|| ||1084, aged about 34 |- |Anund Gårdske 1070–1075|| ||Came from Garðaríki, (Kievan Rus'), probably with ancestral links to Scandinavia|| || |- |bgcolor=#00ffaa|Håkan the Red (Håkan Röde) ||||Levene, Västergötland, 1040, son of Stenkil|| || |- |bgcolor=#00ffaa|Inge the Elder (Inge den äldre) 1079–1084, 1087–1105||Non-contemporary||Son of Stenkil and "Ingamoder"||Helena, sister of Blot-Sweyn||Died of illness, 1105. First buried in Hånger, but then moved to Varnhem Abbey |- | Blot-Sweyn (Blot-Sven) || || || ||1087, ambushed by Inge the Elder's troops