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1527 in Sweden
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in Sweden
Events from the year 1527 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – Gustav Ihttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-I-Vasa Gustav I Vasa Encyclopædia Britannica 1 August 2026
Events
The Swedish Reformation is initiated. All sermons in henceforth to be held in the native language, the military power of the bishops is dissolved, all goods belonging to the Catholic convents is open to confiscation by the crown and the relatives of those who once donated it to the convent in accordance with the Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden, and Catholic convents are banned from accepting new novices without a special dispensation from the crown.
Dissolution of the St. Clare's Priory, Stockholm
Dissolution of the Vårfruberga Abbey
The second of the Dalecarlian Rebellions.
Deaths
Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér), landowner and grandmother of the king
Peder Jakobsson sv, Catholic priest 18 February
Knut Mikaelsson Knut Mikaelsson sv, Catholic priest 21 February
Peder Bengtsson Gylta Peder Bengtsson Gylta sv, official and monastic priest 24 April
Anna Swenonis, manuscript illuminator 31 July
References
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