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# Gustav Eriksson (Vasa) (May 12, 1495 - September 29, 1560)

  • ''Gustav Eriksson would become King of Sweden in 1523''

  • #Margareta Eriksdotter (Vasa) (1497 - December 31, 1536)

#Johan Eriksson (b. 1499, d. young)
#Magnus Eriksson (1501 - 1529)
#Anna Eriksdotter (1503 - 1545)
#Birgitta Eriksdotter (b. 1505, d. young)
#Marta Eriksdotter (1507 - 1523)
#Emerentia Eriksdotter (1507 - 1523)

All of their children were born in either . He died on November 8, 1520 in Stockholm , Sweden.

Erik Johansson was a faithful adherent of the Sture s, a powerful and influential family in Sweden from the late 15th Century to the early 16th Century , and was notorious for his irritable and arbitrary temper. He assisted the Stures in fighting against the Danes , who controlled most of Sweden during the early 16th century. When the Danes, under Christian II , conquered Sweden and took the capital, Stockholm, in 1520 several members of the Sture party were executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath in October of that year, among whom was Erik Johansson. His first son, Gustav Eriksson (Vasa) , future King of Sweden and founder of the House Of Vasa , survived by hiding.


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REFERENCES

  • Ahnlund, Nils. ''Gustav Adolf the Great''. Princeton, NJ: .


  NAME Johansson, Erik
  SHORT DESCRIPTION Father of Gustav Eriksson (Vasa)
  DATE OF BIRTH 1470
  PLACE OF BIRTH Örby , Uppland , Sweden
  DATE OF DEATH 8 November 1520
  PLACE OF DEATH Stockholm , Sweden