Arvid Gustavsson Sparre
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Nyköping Banquet
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). He was Lord of Ekholmen in Veckholm, Uppland, Sweden
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. He had in his Coat of Arms, a spar
Chevron (insigne)
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, which has retrospectively dubbed all the family named in genealogies as Sparre of Vik. He was the councillor of Eric, Duke of Södermanland
Eric, Duke of Södermanland
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and Valdemar of Finland.
- Father was Gustaf Knutsson Sparre (Born 1222, AdelsöAdelsöAdelsö is an island in the middle of Lake Mälaren in Sweden, near southern and northern Björkfjärden. The administrative center of the important Viking settlement Birka was situated at Hovgården on Adelsö.-Geography:...
, SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
), Grandfather was Knut Sixtensson Sparre (Born 1190, Adelsö, Sweden), Great grandfather was Sixten Sixtensson Sparre (born 1165 in ToftaToftaTofta was a manor and important manorial lordship in medieval Sweden, located in Adelsö, Uppland. Its most prominent holder was Charles Ulvsson, Lord of Tofta, maternal grandfather of king Charles VIII of Sweden....
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, Sweden)
- Married with Ramborg Israelsdotter And.
- child, Gustav Arvidsson, became knight and member of the Privy Council of Sweden, justiciar of Södermanland.
- His grandson is known as Arvid Gustavsson, Lord of VikArvid Gustavsson, Lord of VikArvid Gustavsson, Lord of Vik was a medieval Swedish magnate and justiciar of Finland. His principal seat was his manor of Vik in Balingsta, Uppland. Through his paternal grandmother Ramborg Israelsdotter And, younger Arvid descended from the And family...
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- Arvid also had a child named Gisles Arvidsson Sparre with Helena (Elin) Magnusdotter Sture.
Source
- Äldre svenska frälsesläkter, by Folke Wernstedt, 1965
- http://www.artursson.se/0002/2744.htm