Ture Jönsson asks the archbishop to receive Giske for him
DN 8/525 · [2? Septbr. 1524.] · Malmö
What the letter says
In a letter from Malmö, probably in September 1524, a sender whom the editor identifies as Lord Ture Jönsson asks Archbishop Olav for help. When the archbishop's messenger has received Lady Inger Ottesdatter's estate and Giske and had everything recorded with its revenues, the estate is to be handed over to Ture's servant Jens Nilsson. Ture also asks the archbishop to protect his servants and tenants.
The letter in modern English (excerpt)
Dear worthy lord. When God so ordains that Your Grace's authorised messenger has received Lady Inger's [Inger Ottesdatter's] estate and Giske etc., and has had all the estate properly recorded with what it yields in rent, may it then please Your Grace to hand it over to this my servant Jens Nilsson. I have entrusted this to him and given him my letter about it. Even so, whatever goes beyond his ability, for him or for more of my servants and landbor (tenant farmers), shall always have skatzmal [uncertain reading: probably right of appeal] to Your Grace. I humbly ask that Your Grace will be so kind as to keep them under Your Grace's protection and look after my best and that of all, as is my good and great trust. This I and all my friends will willingly repay as long as I live etc.
Original text (excerpt)
Kiere verdige herra. Ner gud føier edher nades fulmectige bud anammet haffuer fru Ingegerds godz oc Giiske etc. oc latiid redelige alle godz bescriffue huat the rente teckes edher nade sedhen befalet thenne min tienere Iens Nilsson tha haffuer iak ther om honum betrot oc gefuit honum mit breff dogh oc sa at huat honum offuer gar eller flere myne tienere oc lanbo skule aldeles haffue skatzmal tiil edher nade ytmykelige begierendes edher nade ville verdes at hafue them j edher nades førsuar oc ram
Background
Ture Jönsson of Tre Rosor was a Swedish councillor of the realm and a kinsman of Knut Alvsson, and he claimed the inheritance of the Tre Rosor family in Norway, Giske included. Inger Ottesdatter of Austrått at the same time had control of the estate through her own right of inheritance, and this letter suggests that Giske was to be transferred from her to Ture, probably after a settlement. In 1524 Malmö was the venue of a great meeting between Denmark and Sweden, and Ture was probably there in connection with it. Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson was the most powerful man in Norway, and Ture needed him as intermediary and protector. The letter is a private letter in which the names of sender and recipient have been inferred by the editor, so the identification is uncertain. Landbor were tenant farmers, farmers who leased the land from the estate owner.
People: Ingerd Ottesdatter (fru Inger)