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Christina (''Kristina'' or ''Kerstin'') Nilsdotter of Fogelvik, Heiress of Tullgarn (1494/5 – January 1559), was the wife of the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Younger, and after his death, leader of resistance to Christian II of Denmark. In her lifetime she was called ''Lady Kristina'' (Swedish: ''Fru Kristina''), but later was referred to as "Kristina Gyllenstierna" because of the house of nobility to which she belonged. == Early life == Christina Gyllenstierna was born to riksråd Nils Eriksson Gyllenstierna and Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér) of Venngarn, Heir of Lindholm. Gyllenstierna was a great-granddaughter of King Charles VIII of Sweden through her father, a younger son of Christina Karlsdotter Bonde, for whom she was named. She was from a family of Danish origin. Her grandfather Erik Eriksen of Demstrup ("Gyldenstjerne") was Danish, but became acquainted with Sweden, because the two realms were united in the Kalmar Union. When Sweden and Denmark began to fight over control of the Union, Erik allied with the Swedish claimant, Charles VIII. As reward, Charles's daughter, the heir of Fogelvik, was married to him and he ultimately became the High Steward of Charles' court. Through her mother, Christina was the half-sister of Cecilia Månsdotter of Eka, mother of the future king Gustav I, through her mother's other marriage. Her father was Niels Eriksen, Lord of Tullgarn (also written Nils Eriksson, and surnamed "Gyllenstjerna" by later historians). Her family belonged to the highest Swedish nobility of this "Regency" era. Christina was first engaged to Nils Gädda (d. 1508), governor of Kalmar and Lycka, but the marriage never took place due to his death. She married the nephew of her former betrothed, Sten Sture the Younger, son of Svante, the regent of Sweden, in Stockholm 16 November 1511. She had five children during her marriage: Nils in 1512, Iliana in 1514, Magdalena 1516, Svante 1517 and Anna 1518, and a son after the death of her spouse, who died age one and a half. She had two sons from her first marriage: Nils and Svante Stensson Sture. After the death of her father-in-law regent Svante in 1512 one year after her marriage, Sten Sture was elected regent of Sweden. During this period, Sweden was formally a part of the Kalmar Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, were the Danish monarch were habitually elected king of all three kingdoms. This created an opposition in Sweden to the Danish dominance within the union, and during most of the second half of the 15th-century, Sweden was governed almost continuously by "Regents": the father-in-law of Christina, Svante Nilsson, was Regent in 1504–1512. At the death of his father, Sten was 18 years old. High Councillor Eric Trolle was chosen as regent by the council— he supported union with Denmark. However, young Sten utilized the castles and troops fiefed to him by his late father and made a coup. After Sten promised to continue union negotiations with Denmark, the High Council accepted him as regent instead of Trolle. In reality, lord Sten's purpose was to keep Sweden independent of Denmark. He took the Sture name, heritage from his great-grandmother, because it symbolized independence of Sweden as reminder of Sten Sture the Elder, his father's third cousin. Regent Sten had already in 1504 been proposed as a candidate in the election of a new king of Sweden as a replacement for king John, King of Denmark, who had been elected king of Sweden in 1497 but who was ousted from Sweden in 1502. Upon the death of John in 1513, the question was again raised to elect regent Sten as king of Sweden rather than the son of John, Christian II of Denmark, and Sten was making preparations to arrange an election, among them seeking support for it from the pope.〔Kristina Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna, urn:sbl:13412, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Hans Gillingstam), hämtad 2015-03-10.〕 It is considered likely that Christina acted as political adviser to her spouse and participated in state affairs,given her later role. In practice, Sten and Christina already functioning as king and queen of Sweden: In 1519, Peder Månsson, Bishop of Västerås, expressed his surprise in a letter from Rome to the Abbess of Vadstena Abbey that Sten had not yet been crowned,〔Kristina Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna, urn:sbl:13412, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Hans Gillingstam), hämtad 2015-03-10.〕 and in the contemporary Stockholm chronicle, Christina is referred to as "Our Gracious Princess".〔Kristina Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna, urn:sbl:13412, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Hans Gillingstam), hämtad 2015-03-10.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christina Gyllenstierna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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