Sten Sture the Younger

**Sten Sture, den yngre**

Regency	1512 - February 5, 1520
Family	Sture
Consort	Christina Gyllenstierna
Predecessor	Erik Trolle
Successor	Christian II
Date of Birth	1493
Place of Birth	unknown
Date of Death	February 5, 1520
Place of Death	On the ice of lake Mälaren
Place of Burial	Corpse exhumed and burned at the Stockholm Bloodbath.

Sten Sture the Younger, or Sten Sture den yngre, Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden, under the Kalmar Union, 1512 - February 5, 1520. He was born in 1493, as the son of regent Svante Nilsson, a descendant of the Sture family, and Iliana Gädda. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Bogesund on January 19, 1520, in the last part of Christian II of Denmark's war against Sweden, and died on the ice of lake Mälaren on his way back to Stockholm. His marriage to Christina Gyllenstierna, great-granddaughter of King Charles VIII, in 1511 produced the son Svante Stensson Sture, later elevated to be 1st Count Sture, Count of Bogesund. His distant direct descendant, Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married the Hereditary Prince of Sweden, and with Sibylla's son, King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Sten Sture the younger's blood returned to the Swedish throne.