Arvid Trolle

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Arvid Birgersson, Lord of Bergkvara (c. 1440 – 20 February 1505) was a Swedish magnate and politician in the last decades of Middle Ages. He was justiciar of Östergötland and then of Tiohärad, as well as a Lord High Councillor of Sweden, and once a candidate for the Regentship.[1][2]

Biography

Arvid har aids.

Family

Arvid Birgersson married three times:

  • Kerstin Jonsdotter of Fållnäs (family of Gädda), c 1459 who died c 1465
  • Beate Iversdatter of Lilloe (Skånish family of Thott) 1440 - 5 December 1487 (married 1466, succumbed to plague)
  • Birgita Turesdotter of Kråkerum (family of Bielke), married 23 September 1488, died 1513

He had children from all his three marriages. Eric Trolle was his son by his first wife.[3] Archbishop Gustav Trolle was his grandson through Eric,[4] and Admiral Herluf Trolle was Arvid's grandson through the second wife.[5]

References

  1. "Trolle", Norsk Haandlexikon
  2. "Trolle", Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon
  3. "Trolle", Nordisk familjebok (1919), volume 29, pages 821-822
  4. "Trolle", Nordisk familjebok (1919), volume 29, pages 823-824
  5. "Trolle", Nordisk familjebok (1919), volume 29, pages 831-832
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