The inheritance division at Skara: Erik Eriksson's share
SDHK 34165 · 25. januar 1500 · Skara
What the letter says
The knight Erik Eriksson of Fågelvik divides an inheritance at Skara on 25 January 1500 with his «syskon» Abraham Eriksson, Knut Alvsson, Kristina Eriksdotter and Sigrid Eskilsdotter after their mother Lady Kristina of Fågelvik and their aunt Lady Magdalena, King Karl's daughters. Present are Bishop Brynolf, the marshal Svante Nilsson, the lawman Ture Jönsson and Erik Jönsson, district judge of Vartofta. Erik receives the main farm Fågelvik and estates in Småland, on Öland, in a number of hundreds in Uppland and in Västergötland, Östergötland and Västmanland. All those named, Knut Alvsson included, attach their seals.
Background
Knut Alvsson (died 1502) was the son of Alv Knutsson and held Giske after his father. His first wife, Görvel Eriksdotter (Gyllenstierna), was the daughter of Sir Erik Eriksson and Lady Kristina of Fågelvik, and Kristina was the daughter of the Swedish king Karl Knutsson (Bonde), who also fought for the Norwegian throne in 1449. Görvel had died before 1495, which is why Knut took part in the division after his mother-in-law and her sister Magdalena. SDHK puts the word «syskon» (siblings) in quotation marks because Knut was the brother-in-law of the other heirs. This is Erik Eriksson's copy of the division, and it survives as a parchment original in the National Archives in Stockholm. Nine seals hung from it, and three of them survive. Knut Alvsson's seal was one of them. The record does not say which ones survive.
People: Knut Alvsson