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i. MARGARET AND ERIC OF POMERANIA. 149
daughter of our Henry IV., who was distinguished at once
for her gentleness, her intelligence, and her courage. Un
fortunately her marriage was childless; and it was rendered
unhappy by her husband s misconduct. Nevertheless, she
was of great service to Sweden as regent during his
absence. Like the other royal ladies of Sweden, she
attached herself to Vadstena, and it was clearly through her
and one of her English companions that the Birgittines
were introduced into England. The Diary of Vadstena
mentions the name of
*
Henry Rawinzwatt
"
as coming in
the year of the marriage, to ask for brethren to be sent to
England. This, to us, rather strange designation, covers
the name of a well-known person, Henry Fitzhugh, third
Lord Fitzhugh, a great traveller, who was advanced to the
office of constable of England on the coronation of Henry
V., and was father of a Bishop of London.1
As long as Margaret lived Eric s faults were to a great
extent controlled and concealed. Her chief fault, in the
eyes of the Swedes, was that she considered herself as a
Dane, and Denmark as the head of the union kingdom, and
that she governed Sweden through Danish noblemen.
Eric, however, regarded himself as a German, which was
worse; and he had neither the ability for government nor
the character of Margaret. He was a man of very incon
sistent nature, learned and accomplished according to the
standard of the times, and not without religious impulses
and interests, but headstrong, obstinate and vain, lax in
morals, and determined to use the power of the Church for
secular ends. Much of his long reign was spent in vain
1
See detached note at the end of this lecture. "Rawinz
watt," in Swedish books, is also called
"
Ravenswather "
(Sv. H.1
,
2 p. 163). It perhaps means "
Ravensworth,"
though I have not identified the name in connection with Fitz
hugh. He married Elizabeth, heiress of Sir Robert Grey, of
Rotherfield-Grays, Co. Oxon. See for some notices of them
Collins Peerage, ix., 467. Henry Fitzhugh,
"
noster Camer-
arius," was one of the witnesses to Henry V. s deed of
foundation of Syon on his manor of Isleworth, in the parish of
Twickenham, Middlesex.
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