Erik Joakimsson Fleming (1487âÂÂ1548) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish noble, a Councilor of State of Sweden and an admiral. He was a prominent statesman and King Gustav Vasa's favourite. He was the king's trusted official in Swedish Finland.
Fleming was son of the riksrÃÂ¥d nobleman Joakim Fleming and Elin Björnsdotter of Svidja, and the brother of abbess Valborg Fleming and Ivar Fleming: he was a grandson of Björn Ragvaldsson's. Erik Fleming's son was Admiral Klaus Fleming and his daughter was Filippa Fleming, who succeeded in writing a will disinheriting her brother for his neglect of her in a long illness, an unusual legal achievement at that time.
From 1512, he had a number of offices within the government administration in Finland. In 1523, him and his brother was named riksrÃÂ¥d by king Gustav, and came to be his trusted representatives in Finland, then a Swedish province.