Kingdom of Livonia
The Kingdom of Livonia was a nominal state in what is now the territory of Estonia and Latvia. Russian tsar Ivan IV declared the establishment of the kingdom during the Livonian War of 1558–1583, but it never functioned properly as a polity.
Kingdom of Livonia | |
|---|---|
| 1570–1579 | |
Livonia, as shown in the 1573 map of Johannes Portantius | |
| Status | Client state of the Tsardom of Russia |
| Capital | Pahlen |
| Government | Monarchy |
| King | |
• 1570–1579 | Magnus |
| History | |
• Established | 1570 |
• Disestablished | 1579 |
In 1570, Magnus, Duke of Holstein was crowned in Moscow as the king of Livonia. Magnus left Moscow with a Russian army with the intention of conquering Swedish-controlled Reval, but called off the siege in 1571 after failing to capture the city. Magnus eventually fell out of favour with Ivan and defected.
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