The Gottorp Fury (Swedish: Gottorpska raseriet or Holsteinska raseriet) was the name given to the wild excesses when the 16-year-old king Charles XII of Sweden and his cousin Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp amused themselves in the summer of 1698.
The duke was eleven years older than Charles;[1] he was even more unruly than the young king and incited the latter to outrageous acts.
For instance, there is no proof to the story that they chopped the heads off calves, dogs, goats, and sheep, whereafter they were said to have thrown the carcasses through the palace windows.
One Sunday three pastors in Stockholm churches held sermons with the theme Woe thee, o land, when thy king is a child (Ecclesiastes 10:16).
During one drunken night a bear was killed when it fell through a window to the palace yard after having been forced to drink wine.