Sten Sture the elder
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Sten Sture I. the Elder , Sten Gustavsson (Sture) , Mr. Sten (* around 1440 , † December 14, 1503 in Jönköping ) was imperial administrator ( Swedish riksföreståndare ) of Sweden . He was born around 1440 as the son of Gustav Anundsson Sture and Brigitte Bielke , daughter of Sten and half-sister of King Karl VIII. Knutsson Bonde . From 1501 Sten was mayor of Stockholm .
His father died as early as 1444. The relationship with King Karl determined his responsibility for fighting within Sweden at an early stage and he visited him in Gdansk during Karl's seven-year flight from the country . In 1464 he took part with the bishop Kettil Karlsson (Vasa) in an uprising against King Christian I , which led to a victory against him at Harakar.
With his prominent appearance in the civil unrest of 1466/67, he made a decisive contribution to Karl Knutsson's accession to the throne in the last year of the uprising. The following riot by Erik Karlssons (Vasa) against Knudsson Sten Sture was again forced to take up arms. At Uppbo färja in the Dalarna region , he and Nils Sture achieved the decisive victory against the insurgents. Shortly afterwards Christian I invaded Västergötland , but Sture was able to defeat him at Öresten that same year .
In 1470, after the death of his uncle, King Karl VIII. Knutsson , Sten Sture took over the post of Reich Administrator (Reichsvorsteher). Christian's renewed claims to the throne, however, led to another Danish-Swedish war . Sweden's independence and Sten's own position were consolidated for 25 years by the victory in the Battle of Brunkeberg (October 10, 1471). This was reflected e.g. B. 1477 reflected in the founding of Uppsala University . His governance relied mainly on the lower classes, which earned him some opponents in the Swedish aristocracy.
These achieved in 1497 that Sten lost power to the Danish King John I (in Sweden John II). He was able to regain the office of imperial administrator in 1501 and held it until his death in 1503.
Sten Sture died on December 14, 1503, possibly by murder. He was first in the Carthusian monastery of Mariefred buried, but later was transferred to his bones in the cathedral of Strängnäs . His marriage to Ingeborg Åkesdotter did not have any children, but he had an illegitimate daughter, Birgitta , who later became a nun.
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Charles VIII (King) |
Imperial Regent of Sweden 1470–1497 |
John II (King) |
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John II (King) |
Imperial Regent of Sweden 1501–1503 |
Svante Sture |
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| SURNAME | Sten Sture the elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sten Sture I. the elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial Administrator of Sweden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1440 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1503 |
| Place of death | Jonkoping |