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5- THE STURES AND THE DANISH KINGS. 163
But King John was not crowned until the 25th November,
1497. After a short period, during which the king at
tempted to reign in person and Sten Sture was driven from
power by Jacobus Ulphonis, the archbishop and the admin
istrator were again reconciled. The latter died suddenly
1 3th December, 1503. Early in the next year his friend
and kinsman, Svante Sture, managed to get himself elected
administrator.
Svante s father, Nils Bosson, was, by his father s side,
a member of the family of Natt och Dag, so called from its
shield, half black and half white the family to which the
murderer of Engelbrekt belonged. But Nils took the
name of Sture from his mother, and Svante continued to
use it, as did his son, Sten Sture the younger the noblest
and most chivalrous of those who bore this name.
Svante died in 1512, and his young son, Sten, was chosen
to fill his place, instead of Eric Trolle, head of the strongest
rival family. In the next year Christian II. succeeded his
father John in Denmark a man of secret, resolute, crafty,
unforgiving, unscrupulous and violent temper, but not
without good qualities and a desire to improve the condi
tions of life among his poorer subjects, especially the
townsmen of Copenhagen, amongst whom he had been
familiarly brought up. Two years later Jacobus Ulphonis,
now an old man, retired from his office, and was succeeded
by Eric s son, Gustavus Trolle, another Johannes Bene-
dicti. Thus the stage was cleared for a new company of
actors, and those young and sanguine ones, new to life
and inclined to violent expedients; and thus the forces
which had been gradually developing their strength in
Sweden and Denmark came into vehement and more than
usually tragic conflict. The destruction of the union and
the breach with Rome were occasioned by the conduct of
the new archbishop and his allies and the hatred which
they inspired.
Gustavus Trolle was sprung from a family which was
closely linked with the interests of the union by its large
possessions in Denmark. Its chief members had for two
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