Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna

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Jöns Bengtsson , also Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna or John Benedicti de Salista (* 1417 , † 15. December 1467 in Borgholm on Öland ) was Archbishop of Uppsala and 1465 - 1466 Regent of Sweden. He came from the Swedish noble family Oxenstierna .

Jöns Bengtsson was the son of the Swedish Imperial Council Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna and Kristina Kristiernsdotter Vasa , daughter of the Imperial Councilor Kristiern Nilsson Vasa . He studied theology and canon law at the University of Leipzig and returned to Sweden in 1438 as a Magister in artibus . In 1439 he was appointed archpriest of Uppsala Cathedral. In the following years he took part in several political conferences, including a. at the King's election of Christoph von Bayern by the Swedish Diet in 1440. After that he returned to Leipzig, and in 1445 he was named Decretorum baccalaureus andCalled Rector of the University of Leipzig .

Jöns Bengtsson was appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Uppsala in 1448 ; on June 30th of that year he was ordained a bishop. At the same time, Charles VIII was crowned King of Sweden . Just one day after his own consecration, Jöns Bengtsson crowned Karl's wife Katarina Gumsehuvud as Queen of Sweden .

Despite this support from the Swedish king, the archbishop sided with the Danish King Christian I in the ensuing disputes over the independence of Sweden or the maintenance of the Kalmar Union , as King Charles had started to raise taxes and confiscate church property. In 1457 he deposited his insignia in Uppsala Cathedral and announced that he would not use them again until King Charles had been driven out. Jöns Bengtsson and Erik Axelsson Tott headed the opposition and King Karl was expelled to Gdansk .

But Christian I also imposed high taxes on Sweden and the Swedish Church. When the king stayed in Finland for some time and Jöns Bengtsson was appointed imperial administrator, he took advantage of the mood and stopped collecting taxes. Thereupon he was arrested by King Christian I and transferred to Denmark. As a result, there was a revolution in Sweden and Charles VIII was recalled. Thereupon Christian I reconciled himself with the archbishop, released him and sent him to Sweden. There he succeeded again in deposition of Charles VIII.

Following the deposition of the Swedish king, Christian I reinstated Jöns Bengtsson as imperial administrator. However, his actions and demeanor brought the people against him, so that his former companion Erik Axelsson deposed him. He found refuge with his friend Magnus Gren in Borgholm on the island of Öland , where he died on December 15, 1467.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Åsbrink, Gustav & Westman, Knut B., Svea rikes ärkebiskopar från 1164 till nuvarande tid , Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm 1935. p. 154
  2. ^ Gillingstam, Hans (1994). Jöns Bengtsson (Oxenstierna) , Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, Volume 28 (1992-1994) , 1994, p. 496.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Nils Ragvaldsson Archbishop of Uppsala
1448–1467 		Tord Pedersson
Charles VIII
(King) 		Imperial Administrator of Sweden
(with Erik Axelsson Tott )
1457 		Christian I
(King)
Kettil Karlsson Wasa Imperial Regent of Sweden
1465–1466 		Erik Axelsson Tott
personal data
SURNAME Oxenstierna, Jöns Bengtsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jöns Bengtsson; Jöns Oxenstjerna Bengtsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish archbishop and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1417
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1467
Place of death on the Åland Islands