Karin Månsdotter

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Karin Månsdotter (?), 1580
Karin Månsdotter's sarcophagus in Turku Cathedral

Karin Månsdotter (born October 6 or November 6, 1550 in Uppland ; † September 13, 1612 at the Liuksiala farm in Kangasala ) was the wife of the Swedish King Erik XIV (1533–1577).

Early years

Karin Månsdotter's parents were Måns Månsson and Ingrid Jakobsdotter. The father was probably a soldier and came from a rather humble background. Karin initially found employment with Gert Cantor, who was employed as a court musician in Stockholm . Orphaned at an early age , she was employed as a chambermaid at the court of Elisabet Wasa , a daughter of Gustav I. Wasa , at the latest from the beginning of 1565 . At the age of fifteen, Karin became the mistress of King Erik XIV.

queen

As early as July 13, 1567, Karin and Erik were secretly married by the Swedish archbishop in Stockholm - probably due to resistance in the nobility because of their low origin - which was not known until December 1567. A little later the Reichsrat agreed to a marriage. On July 4th, 1568 Karin Månsdotter and King Erik XIV were officially married. A day later she was crowned Queen of Sweden. A revolt of the Swedish nobility and the capture of the king on September 29 of the same year, instigated by his brother Johann , forced Erik to abdicate shortly afterwards.

widow

Karin Månsdotter's burial chapel in Turku Cathedral, drawing from 1889

After the death of her husband in 1577, Karin Månsdotter lived secluded but wealthy on the Liuksiala farm in Kangasala in Finland . It remained popular among the people. Today she is buried in Turku Cathedral. The Finnish-Russian painter Vladimir Swertschkow designed a glass window for her burial chapel in the cathedral in 1867. Karin Månsdotter is the only Swedish queen to be buried in Finland.

family

Karin Månsdotter and Erik XIV had a daughter and three sons:

  • Sigrid (October 15, 1566; † 1633)
  • Gustav (January 28, 1568 - February 22, 1607)
  • Henrik (born January 24, 1570; † 1574)
  • Arnold (November 1, 1572; † 1573)

Afterlife

Erik XIV. And Karin Månsdotter , painting by Georg von Rosen , 1871

The romantic and tragic idea of ​​love between Karin and Erik has inspired painters, writers and filmmakers. In 1942 the Finnish writer Mika Waltari wrote his novel Kaarina Maununtytär (German Karin Magnus daughter , 1943). In 1954 the Swedish film Karin Månsdotter (director: Alf Sjöberg ) was released.

literature

  • Alfred Gustaf Ahlqvist: Karin Månsdotter. En monografi . Stockholm 1874
  • Karin Månsdotter . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 569 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Karin Månsdotter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mika Waltari: Karin Magnus daughter: Historical novel. [From d. Finn. in Dt. transfer v. Haidi Hahm-Blåfield]. Lühe-Verlag, Leipzig / Berlin 1943 ,; 2nd edition 1944
predecessor Office Successor
Katharina Stenbock Queen of Sweden
1568 		Katharina Jagiellonica
personal data
SURNAME Månsdotter, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish queen
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1550 or November 6, 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppland
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1612
Place of death Liuksiala farm near Tampere