Magnus Stensson Gren till Tidö

• Son of Sten Haraldsson (Gren) and Cecilia Nilsdotter

SDHK no: 25543

• Dating: 1449 July 18
• Place of issue: Yarn

Content

The Danish chieftain Olof Axelsson on Visborg and the Swedish commander Magnus Gren on Gotland and the castle of Visborg.

• Sources: Medieval copies: A 20 fol. 295v-296r RA 0201, Post-medieval transcripts: Peringskiöld: E 18 Post-medieval regest/notice: ER E:orig.Printed: Hadorph's Rhyme Chronicle II:154. ST III no. 488 c. Literature and commentary, Schück, Rikets brev och register (1976), p. 335 etc.

Magnus Gren , By The Swedish Biographical Dictionary

Chief Justice, Council of Ministers, 1 Branch, Magnus, d trol 1475 o securely before July 19, 1480. Parents: County Governor Sten Haraldsson and Cecilia Nilsdtr (Ivar Nilsson's family). Appears at the earliest 24, the Council of Ministers no later than 22 Jan 35, was the chief white man at Nyköping 30 May 36, received 27 Oct 36 with his brother-in-law Nils Jönsson (Oxenstierna) Borgholms castle county, which he alone held until July 40, knight between 17 July and 30 September 41, thus probably at King Kristoffer's coronation on September 14, 41, the king's fodder marsh was Feb. 1, 42, the chief of the Sthlm at least from May 24, 42 to the spring of 46, and at least part of that time, also in the Seminghundra (Sth), on June 11, 42, under King Kristofers absence from being interim regent in Sweden, together with Archbishop Nils Ragvaldsson, the Chief Bengt Jönsson (Oxenstierna) and the Islander Erengisle Nilsson (Hammerstaätten),

G 1) at the latest 28 m Ingeborg Karlsdtr, d trol 56, dtr to the gunner Karl Sture o Märta Eriksdtr o previously gm the East Gothic man Gert Jonsson (star); 2) April 24, 62 at Borgholm m Gertrud Narvesdtr, who was living 26 September 00 o troll still 16 Feb 02 but was dead 4 Jan 05, dtr to the Norwegian National Council Narve Jakobsson (Römer) o Filippa Borkvardsdtr (Krummedige).

In political contexts G appears at the earliest during Engelbrecht's rebellion, when he, together with Karl Knutsson, participated in Guse Nilsson's unsuccessful storming of Stäkeholm in Tjust 21 September 1434. Like Karl Knutsson and other nobles, who joined the uprising, he won entry to the national council most recently. at the Arbogamötet in Jan 1435. Later G was among the sv ombudsmen at the meetings in Halmstad 1435 and Kalmar 1436 and 1438.

In the spring of 1439, he followed Nils and Bo Stensson (Night and Day) and their nephew Magnus Bengtsson, the murderer of Engelbrecht, when they went to King Erik on Gotland with complaints against Karl Knutsson, who had been elected national governor last autumn. In the standstill treaty with the one in Arkösund (Ög) on ​​21 Aug, G is mentioned among King Erik's agents. In February 1440 Karl Knutsson began to besiege Borgholm, which G held, and in July then the castle had to capitulate. A few months later, G took part as a national council, together with the governor, in the meeting in Arboga, where Kristofer of Bavaria was elected king of Sweden, and he also attended the meeting in Kalmar in the summer of 1441, where the new king was received. G's opposite relationship with Karl Knutsson must have contributed to his being in favor with Kristofer from the beginning and was appointed as a marshal, the only known sv national official with this title. He also became chief of staff at Sthlm's castle and one of the heads of state in the king's absence. As well as a Bavarian knight and prior in Sthlm's black brothers monastery, he was sent to Gotland in the summer of 1444 for negotiations with King Erik. In connection with Kristoffer's wedding in September 1445, G was in Copenhagen and in the summer of 1446 followed the king on his expedition to Gotland. Then he had to exchange the chief white man's staff at Sthlm with that at Turku, which was thought to be related to his dissatisfaction with his hijackings. In connection with Kristoffer's wedding in September 1445, G was in Copenhagen and in the summer of 1446 followed the king on his expedition to Gotland. Then he had to exchange the chief white man's staff at Sthlm with that at Turku, which was thought to be related to his dissatisfaction with his hijackings. In connection with Kristoffer's wedding in September 1445, G was in Copenhagen and in the summer of 1446 followed the king on his expedition to Gotland. Then he had to exchange the chief white man's staff at Sthlm with that at Turku, which was thought to be related to his dissatisfaction with his hijackings.

When Karl Knutsson was elected King of Sweden after Kristoffer's death, he sent G with 2,000 men to Gotland in July 1448. The people soon accepted Karl Knutsson as king, and a siege of Visby began. Since G left home in the autumn, his deputy Birger Trolle succeeded in conquering the city at the beginning of December, and the king, Erik entrapped in the castle of Visborg, promised December 22 to capitulate April 20, cm he got Borgholm with Öland for his lifetime. King Karl now sent G again to Gotland with troops, but Erik managed to get rescue from Denmark, left Gotland to the Danes and settled in Pomerania. On July 18, 1449, a cease-fire treaty was concluded between G and Olof Axelsson (Tott), now the Danish chief of Visborg, according to which the Swedes would retain the town of Visby and the Danes castle, until arbitration fell on ownership.

King Charles's later propaganda blames G for treason both on Gotland and at the meeting in Halmstad in May 1450, where he was not, however, among the twelve envoys. At the meeting in Arboga the following month, where the Halmstads Treaty was ratified, King Karl removed him from Turku Castle County. Without reporting two years of collection from Turku County, totaling DEM 9,000, G sailed to the waters off Danzig, where he engaged in piracy. He was subsequently arrested and taken to Lübeck, where Kristian I worked out his release.

G now entered Christ's ministry. According to the Karl Chronicle, at the end of 1451, he must have let his servants make a land rise at Kolmården. In the summer of 1452 he made land ascents on Öland and at Sthlm and later at Ronneby and Avaskär in the Blekinge occupied by the Swedes and in Möre, where according to the Karlskronikan he got a finger cut off.

After the ceasefire came to a stand in 1453, King Karl sued G and seven other Swedish gentlemen, who joined King Kristian, to answer to the Sthlm council at mid-summer. Neither of them appeared either at the time or at the case's renewed hearing on Sept. 15, which is why the case was traded in their absence. G was accused of his behavior in Gotland and during the war he waged a shield against his fatherland, and was also accused of claiming that Karl had murdered his murder on July 11 in Copenhagen in the presence of King Charles's delegate Erik Eriksson (Gyllenstierna) and Birger Trolle. children. This claim is possibly explained by the fact that a knight Erik G, probably a son of G, and three other young knights died during the last half of 1452 (Helga Lekamen's book of guilds in Sthlm) and thus may be presumed to have died in the war.

During his visit to Norway in the autumn of 1453, Kristian I deposed the reckless white man on Bergen Olof Nilsson (Skanke) because of his dissatisfaction with the Hanseatic people. G now became his successor and at this time also acts as a Norwegian national council. He was the chief whiteman in Bergen in the summer of 1455, when Olof Nilsson to King Kristian made it known to him with cunning from King Charles the chief whiteman Gustav Olsson (Stenbock) acquired Älvsborg against what he would regain Bergen. With the support of a letter from the king, G refused to give way to Olof Nilsson and got help from the Hanseates, who killed him on 2 September. After this time there is no evidence that G held Bergen, but no successor to him is not known until 1459, so he may have remained there until he could return to Sweden.

Late in the summer of 1456 G conquered G with a large here Öland with the exception of Borgholm, which however was besieged and surrendered on 10 October, since Kristian I himself arrived with reinforcements. Following his takeover of power in Sweden the following year, G was able to re-enter the Swedish Council and became involved in the rewards of those who contributed to the victory. On October 21, 1457, G thus received as a grant Vånga fjärding in Östergötland, where his farm Ål (now Grensholmen) was located, and in a letter on October 18, he was stated to be the chief white man at Sthlm. As such, however, he is not later known, and already five days later he is called the chief white man at Borgholm. His experience as a negotiator was also utilized by Kristian I. Mention can be made of the standstill treaty with King Kasimir IV of Poland, which he and two Danish national councils and a secretary concluded in Danzig on July 28, 1458.

The next time G appears in national political context is at King Kristian's visit to Sthlm 1463. According to the Chronicle, he was involved in the responsibility for torture against some for contacts with King Karl at this time. According to the propaganda script "Danish King Christier's Trade", after the king's return from Finland, along with Marshal Claus Rönnow and the chief of Sthlm's castle Ture Turesson (Bielke), he must have advised him of the inclinations of some of the hinterland farmers captured in the attack on Sthlm Aug. 21. G now entered the Archbishop's Palace Fence and was one of the national councils that issued the certificate for King Kristian on August 14, that they advised him to remove Jöns Bengtsson Sthlm's castle and keep him in jail until the whole council was gathered,

In Kettil Karlsson's (Vaasa) rebellion against King Kristian the following year, G, unlike son Ivar and brother-in-law Kristiern Bengtsson, brother of the archbishop, cannot be belatedly participating. He does not appear again until early February 1465, after the rebellious Karl Knutsson, after Jön Bengtsson's release and return, had to withdraw to Finland. G is now among the national councils that issued letters to Jöns Bengtsson on Stäkets county. He himself received Fellingsbro sn (Ör) as a lecture by Jöns Bengtsson and Bishop Kettil on Aug. 9, two days before the latter's sudden death in the plague. G, who with his second wife received mortgages on Zealand, acquired a few days later goods in Denmark by Kristiern Bengtsson.

At the beginning of February 1466, G, together with Ture Turesson (Bielke), Arvid Trolle and the bishop of Skara Sweden at the union meeting in Jönköping, and on February 16 in Hälsingborg of the three first mentioned issued testimony, show that they followed the Danish delegates after this meeting. there. Since King Kristian was also there, further negotiations have apparently taken place. In the autumn, G attended a meeting in Nyköping between the Swedish Council and the Danish envoy. From Nyköping, the assembled Swedish gentlemen went to Sthlm, where Jöns Bengtsson was forced to relinquish the national leadership to Erik Axelsson (Tott). According to a settlement letter of Oct. 18 between Erik Axelsson's and Jöns Bengtsson's parties, G was counted for the former but his son Ivar and Kristiern Bengtsson for the latter.

However, this party grouping was non-existent. In Kristian's ban on March 17, 1467, for Hanseatic people to trade in Sweden except Öland, Kalmar and Lödöse, ie the counties held by G, Ture Turesson and Kettil Karlsson's stepfather Erik Nipertz. When Erik Axelsson's party again on September 21, Karl Knutsson offered power in Sweden, they stated that G and Ture Turesson, like Jöns Bengtsson and his brothers, refused to come up to Sthlm for deliberations. The close contact between these King Charles's most unforgivable enemies is highlighted above all by the fact that it was with G at Borgholm that Jöns Bengtsson died on December 15 after spending some time at Ture Turesson's estate in Blekinge. A letter, dated in Åhus, Oct. 7, says that G was involved in Kristian's action against Ivar Axelsson's (Tott) Skåne estate, and on March 3, 1468, G and Ture Turesson entered into Gustav Olsson's (Stenbock) farm Tofta in Dörarp (Kron) on behalf of the king on an agreement with Mr. Ivar. In the stagnation treaty that King Karl on April 13, 1468 at Sthlm Castle concluded with Ture Turesson on behalf of Kristians, his and G's and Erik Nipertz's counties and goods are specifically mentioned. It is clear from the correspondence between the two kings and the Hanseatic 1469 that G and Ture Turesson, through piracy, hindered trade. On February 18, 1470, both of them, together with several of the recently unsuccessful rebellions against King Karl's exiled sv men from Varberg, wrote a letter to the city of Danzig, calling them King Kristian's advice. Among the letter's issuers was Erik Nipertz, who shortly thereafter fell into the battle at Öresten during King Kristian's failed invasion of Västergötland. It is likely that G and Ture Turesson also participated in this war company, because after its conclusion, they were together with the king in Lund on March 9. From a letter from Kalmar on June 21, 1471, and from the standstill treaty on Helgeandsholmen outside Sthlm, Aug. 7, it is stated that they were also on the king's last train to Sweden, which ended with the battle of Brunkeberg. In a letter on March 24, 1472, Kristian mentions that Ture Turesson informed him that he and G would grant Kalmar and Borgholm to the Swedish governor Sten Sture on March 30, which also happened. From a letter from Kalmar on June 21, 1471, and from the standstill treaty on Helgeandsholmen outside Sthlm, Aug. 7, it is stated that they were also on the king's last train to Sweden, which ended with the battle of Brunkeberg. In a letter on March 24, 1472, Kristian mentions that Ture Turesson informed him that he and G would grant Kalmar and Borgholm to the Swedish governor Sten Sture on March 30, which also happened. From a letter from Kalmar on June 21, 1471, and from the standstill treaty on Helgeandsholmen outside Sthlm, Aug. 7, it is stated that they were also on the king's last train to Sweden, which ended with the battle of Brunkeberg. In a letter on March 24, 1472, Kristian mentions that Ture Turesson informed him that he and G would grant Kalmar and Borgholm to the Swedish governor Sten Sture on March 30, which also happened.

G's last year should have been calm. In May 1473 he attended a council meeting in Strängnäs, and in August he was in Kalmar during the Union meeting. At the beginning of the following year it was rumored in Halland that G was dead, and this has become, in the literature, fundamental to the perception of the time of his apostasy. However, it is evident from a preserved letter that he was still alive in the summer of 1475. From this, a brotherhood letter is derived from Julita Monastery for G's wife, in which he is not named, but it does not constitute a sure evidence that he was then dead. Only in the summer of 1480 was the inheritance changed after him.

G was undoubtedly one of the most significant among the seventeenth century gentlemen. The national propaganda's unmistakable accusations against him in essential points have resulted in him being regarded as the traitor of the country for a long time. However, the ruthlessness of Karl Knutsson, the so-called representative of separatism, makes G: s largely consistent political trajectory not only explainable but also justifiable.

Links

• http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Gren
• http://www.nad.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=13180
• http://www.nad.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=13177

Sources

• Swedish Biographical Dictionary