Christina Gyllenstierna

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Monument at the Stockholm Royal Castle

Christina Gyllenstierna (* 1494/95; † January 1559 ) was the wife of the Swedish imperial administrator Sten Sture the Younger and after his death continued the resistance against Christian II .

family

Christina Nilsdotter von Fogelvik from the noble family of Gyllenstierna had Danish and Swedish roots. Sten Sture was married to her from November 16, 1511. They each had three sons and three daughters:

  • Nils Sture (1512-1527)
  • Iliana Sture (Stensdotter) (1514–)
  • Magdalena Sture (Stensdotter) (1516–1521)
  • Svante Sture d. J. (Stensson) (1517-1567)
  • Anna Sture (Stensdotter) (1518-)
  • Gustav Sture (1519–1520)

Later she was married to Johan Turesson Tre Rosor at the insistence of Gustav Vasa .

history

In the power struggle to maintain the Kalmar Union , after an unsuccessful attempt to enforce Sweden's independence from 1518 to 1520, the Danes invaded Sweden. On January 19, 1520 Sten Sture was seriously injured in the Battle of Bogesund and died on February 3. His wife tried to unite the Swedish estates against the invasion of the Danes, but could only hold Stockholm and after four months of siege agreed to the armistice and an amnesty promised with it . After Christian II's coronation as King of Sweden, however, he had a large part of the Swedish nobility murdered in the Stockholm bloodbath .

A successful peasant uprising under the half-nephew Gustav Vasa led to the expulsion of the Danish king from Sweden and in 1523 to the formation of an independent kingdom of Sweden, which, due to the counter-policy of Archbishop Gustav Trolle, also resulted in the dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church .

Christina Gyllenstierna, like other female members of the Sture family, was not directly a victim of heresy after the Stockholm bloodbath , but had to spend four years in captivity in the Blue Tower in Copenhagen until she was released at the intercession of Søren Norby . After the pardon from King Fredrik I , she traveled to Norby in Gotland in the hope that he would support her son Nils Sture out of love for her to become King of Sweden. As Norby's royal loyalty was greater, the relationship soon broke up.

Web links

Commons : Christina Gyllenstierna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.schwedenoutback.com/nibelungen1.htm
  2. ↑ http://schweden-forum.blogspot.de/2011/09/die-eroberung-stockholms-durch-kristian.html
personal data
SURNAME Gyllenstierna, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of the Swedish administrator Sten Sture the Younger
DATE OF BIRTH 1494 or 1495
DATE OF DEATH January 1559