Svante Stensson Sture
Svante Stensson Sture or Svante Sture the Younger was a Swedish count, Lord [High Constable of Sweden|riksmarsk] and statesman. In 1543, he commanded Stegeborg when it was besieged by revolting peasants during the Dacke War. From 1562 to 1564, during the Livonian War, he was governor of Estonia.
Svante was killed alongside five others, including his sons Nils and Erik, in the Sture murders by King Erik XIV.
Family
Svante Sture was the only surviving son of Sten Svantesson Sture (d. y.) and Kristina (Christina) Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna. He was married to Märta ("King Martha") Erikdotter Leijonhufvud on 3 March 1538 at Nyköping Castle, with whom he had the following children:- Sigrid Svantesdotter Sture
- Magdalena Svantesdotter Sture
- Anna Svantesdotter Sture
- Sten Svantesson Sture, died in infancy
- Nils Svantesson Sture
- Sten Svantesson Sture
- Erik Svantesson Sture
- Margareta Svantesdotter Sture
- Gustaf Svantesson Sture, died in childhood
- Iliana Svantesdotter Sture, died in childhood
- Mauritz Svantesson Sture
- Karl Svantesson Sture
- Brita Svantesdotter Sture, died in childhood
- Iliana Svantesdotter Sture, died in childhood
- Kristina Svantesdotter Sture
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Category:16th-century Swedish politicians
Category:1517 births
Category:1567 deaths
Category:Politicians from Stockholm
Category:Swedish murder victims