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4. KARL KNUTSSON AND JOHANNES BENEDICT!. 159
fees.
11
These instances are important as precedents which
were, no doubt, remembered in the dispute with Rome as
to the confirmation of bishops-elect at the time of the
Reformation.
The new archbishop was very ambitious, and took upon
him something of kingly state. He had himself crowned
by four bishops.
12
In 1455 he obtained from the pope the
right to be called Primate of Sweden. In 1457 he was
elected administrator of the kingdom, and took an almost
royal title. It has sometimes been asserted that he put
his own figure on his seal, wearing a crown, and holding a
sceptre in its right hand, and an orb in its left.
13
Such a
figure, not unlike that on the great seals of Sweden,
certainly appears on his seal.
14
11
See Celsius: Bullarium, ist October, 1438, p. 186, and
Reuterdahl, III., 2, p. 22, for Nicolaus, and Bull., 2jth April,
1448, p. 190, and Reuterdahl, I.e., p. 29, for John. The latter
page of Celsius gives information as to a reduction of fees in
another case.
12
Rhyzelius :
Episcopo-Scopia, p. 48.
13
Rhyzelius :
p. 48. This very interesting seal is figured in
S. H.1
, 2, p. 300, fig. 229 (but not in S. H.2
).
The figure is
seated, and it is dressed in a cope or robe fastened under the
chin, with a cross where the morse would be. Two angels
hold shields, one on each side : the dexter bears a cross for
Upsala, the sinister shield has the bearing of Oxenstierna, the
ox-yoke. The legend is : Secretum Johannis
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