Sten Sture the Younger

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Sten Sture, den yngre

Regency 1512 - February 5, 1520
Family Sture
Consort Christina Gyllenstierna
Predecessor Erik Trolle
Successor Christian II
Date of Birth 1493
Place of Birth unknown
Date of Death February 5, 1520
Place of Death On the ice of lake Mälaren
Place of Burial Corpse exhumed and burned
at the Stockholm Bloodbath.

Sten Sture the Younger, or Sten Sture den yngre, Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden, under the Kalmar Union, 1512 - February 5, 1520. He was born in 1493, as the son of regent Svante Nilsson, a descendant of the Sture family, and Iliana Gädda. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Bogesund on January 19, 1520, in the last part of Christian II of Denmark's war against Sweden, and died on the ice of lake Mälaren on his way back to Stockholm. His marriage to Christina Gyllenstierna, great-granddaughter of King Charles VIII, in 1511 produced the son Svante Stensson Sture, later elevated to be 1st Count Sture, Count of Bogesund. His distant direct descendant, Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married the Hereditary Prince of Sweden, and with Sibylla's son, King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Sten Sture the younger's blood returned to the Swedish throne.

The Death of Sten Sture the Younger on the ice of lake Mälaren.Painting by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (1880).
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The Death of Sten Sture the Younger on the ice of lake Mälaren.
Painting by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (1880).
Preceded by:
Erik Trolle
Regent of Sweden
1512–1520
Succeeded by:
Christian II
King of Sweden