1538 in Sweden

Events from the year 1538 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav I

Events

• 3 March - Marriage between Svante Stensson Sture and Martha Leijonhufvud.
• The king breaks with the reformers Olaus Petri and Laurentius Andreæ.
• Conrad von Pyhy appointed Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
• The monarch fail to ally Sweden with the Schmalkaldic League.
• The Variarum rerum vocabula is published in Sweden.

Births

• Hogenskild Bielke, soldier and politician (d. 1605)
• Margareta Birgersdotter Grip, writer and genealogist (d. 1586)
• Laurentius Nicolai, Jesuit (d. 1622)
• 13 December - Sigrid Sture, noblewoman and county governor (d. 1613)

Deaths

• Hans Brask, bishop (born 1464)
• Anna Germundsdotter, abbess

References