County of Raseborg

After the gates of Stockholm were opened to the rebels, the fleeing king struck Sten Eriksson, who later died of his wounds.

After his death the county of Raseborg was given to his widow Ebba Leijonhufvud and his descendants in "perpetuity".

Axel Stensson was one of the judges in the trial of the deposed King Sigismund's privy council.

Sten Axelsson had married a German woman, Magdalena von Manderscheid-Virneburg in 1605 and beginning with the County of Manderscheid in 1615, acquired estates in Germany.

The Crown did not look kindly on Sten Axelsson's ties to Germany and, after the Swedish war effort suffered major setbacks in 1634—1635, his estates were confiscated.