Peder Turesson is ready to renounce his loyalty
SDHK 34414 · 14. august 1501 · Stegeholm
Knut Alvsson, lord of Giske, is named as one of the senders of the letters the Sture leaders sent out to win more men for the rebellion. Abraham Eriksson, the subject of the complaint, was his brother-in-law.
What the letter says
Peder Turesson writes from Stegeholm to Svante Nilsson about the wrong Abraham Eriksson did him when he came from Stockholm. He asks Svante to open a letter to Sten Sture with an answer to a letter from Sten Sture, Svante, Hemming Gad and Knut Alvsson to Nils Claesson. He is ready to renounce his loyalty to the king and asks for help for the damage he has suffered over the last three or four years. On a separate slip he asks for a new harness, because the old one burned in a fire at his farm.
Background
The letter was written two weeks after the conspiracy at Vadstena (SDHK 34404). It shows that Knut Alvsson, lord of Giske, was a co-sender of the letters the leaders of the Sture party sent out to win more men for the rebellion. Abraham Eriksson, about whom Peder complains, was Knut's brother-in-law and had been the king's man at Kalmar. The request for new armour is a reminder that the rebellion was to be fought with weapons.
People: Knut Alvsson