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The Death of Sten Sture the Younger on the ice of lake Mälaren.
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 Sture, member of the Sture family, and Iliana Gädda.
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Meanwhile Christian was preparing for the inevitable war with Sweden, where the patriotic party, headed by the freely elected Viceroy Sten Sture the Younger, stood face to face with the pro-Danish party under Archbishop Gustav Trolle.
Sture was mortally wounded at the battle of Bogesund, on January 19, and the Danish army, unopposed, was approaching Uppsala, where the members of the Swedish Privy Council, or Riksråd, had already assembled.
Sture's widow, Dame Christina Gyllenstierna, still held out stoutly at Stockholm, and the peasantry of central Sweden, roused by her patriotism, flew to arms, defeated the Danish invaders at Balundsås on March 19, and were only with the utmost difficulty finally defeated at the bloody battle of Uppsala, on Good Friday, April 6, 1520.
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Sten Sture the younger, or Sten Sture den yngre, viceroy regent of the Kalmar Union in Sweden, (1512 - February 5, 1520).
He was born in 1492 or 1493, as the son of viceroy Svante Sture, member of the Sture family and Iliana Gädda[?].
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Sture was mortally wounded at the battle of Bogesund, on January 19, and the Danisharmy, unopposed, was approaching Uppsala, where the members of the Swedish Privy Council, or Riksråd, had alreadyassembled.
Sture's widow, Dame Christina Gyllenstierna, stillheld out stoutly at Stockholm, and the peasantry of central Sweden, roused by herpatriotism, flew to arms, defeated the Danish invaders at Balundsås on March 19,and were only with the utmost difficulty finally defeated at the bloody battle of Uppsala, on Good Friday, April 6, 1520.
On November 1 the representatives of the nation swore fealty to Christian as hereditary king of Sweden, though the law of the land distinctly provided that the Swedish crownshould be elective.
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 Sten Sture the Younger
Sten Sture, commonly called Sten Sture the Younger, the son of Svante Sture.
Unfortunately these two masterful young men (Trolle was twenty-seven, Sture barely twenty-three), who represented respectively the highest ecclesiastical and the highest civil authority in Sweden, were only too prone to carry on the family feud.
At the very beginning Sture was hit by a bullet and his peasant levies fled to the wild mountainous regions of Tiveden where they made a last desperate but unsuccessful stand.
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Thereupon Sten Sture and the Rigsraad resolved that Trolle should be no longer recognised as Archbishop, and that he should be imprisoned and his castle razed to the ground.
On January 18,1520, Sten Sture was defeated in a battle fought on the ice on Lake Âsunden and so severely wounded that he died some weeks after.
Sweden was so devastated by the war as to be practically bankrupt ; the fields lay fallow, the mines were unworked, and many of the cities, Stockholm in particular, were desolated.
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 Sture, Sten, The Younger --  Encyclopædia Britannica
During the regency (1503–12) of Sten's father, Svante (Nilsson) Sture, the nation was continuously at war with Denmark, and the noble-dominated state…
Moreover, hundreds of thousands of Sten guns were provided to underground movements everywhere in Europe during that war.
regent of Sweden (1503–12), successor to Sten Sture the Elder.
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 Sten Sture the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in 1493, as the son of regent Svante Nilsson, a descendant of the Sture family, and Iliana Gädda.
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.
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