Eric Trolle

Erik Trolle
Born c. 1460
Died 1529 or 1530
Title Regent Riksföreståndare
Predecessor Svante Nilsson
Successor Sten Sture the Younger
Spouse(s) Ingeborg Filipsdotter (Tott)
Karin Eriksdotter (Gyllenstierna)
Children Gustav Trolle, archbishop of Uppsala
Kristina
Ermegård
A son of unknown name
Erik
Joakim
Beata
Ingeborg

Eric Trolle (or Erik Arvidsson) (c. 1460–1530) was elected regent of Sweden in 1512, during the era of Kalmar Union. He was Justiciar of Närke and a Lord High Councillor of Sweden from 1487.[1]

Biography

Eric Arvidsson was born around 1460 into an important family of high nobility and was apparently aiming at a clerical career. Eric's parents were lord Arvid Birgersson Trolle (died 1505) and his first wife Kerstin Jonsdotter (Gädda). His father had connected him to the powerful family Thott by marrying Beata Ivarsdotter Tott (died 1487) as his second wife in 1466. The last stepmother of Eric's was his father's third wife Brita Turesdotter Bielke.

Eric studied at the universities of Rostock and Cologne, had positions as Canon in Uppsala and Linköping but was never ordained. Eric was elected Regent (riksföreståndare) at the meeting of the High Council of Sweden in 1512 upon the death of regent Svante Nilsson, Lord of Ekesiö, but never actually took office, being superseded by Svante's son, the young Sten Sture the Younger.

He married in 1487 the wealthy Ingeborg Philipsdatter (Thott) (died 1495), his stepmother's first cousin, as his first wife and settled on her manor Ekholmen Castle in Uppland. His second wife, from about 1512, was Karin Eriksdotter Gyllenstierna, much his junior, who survived until around 1562. She was a great-granddaughter of King Charles VIII of Sweden. Eric's son Gustav Trolle (1488–1535) became Archbishop of Uppsala and leader of the Church of Sweden.

Wives

Children

first marriage

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second marriage

References

Eric Trolle
Born: 1460 Died: 1530
Political offices
Preceded by
Svante Nilsson
Regent of Sweden
1512
Succeeded by
Sten Sture the Younger
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