Erik Fleming (councilor)

Erik Joakimsson Fleming (1487–1548) was a Finnish noble, a Councilor of State of Sweden and an admiral.

He was a prominent statesman and King Gustav Vasa's favourite.

Erik Fleming's son was Admiral Klaus Fleming and his daughter was Filippa Fleming, who succeeded in writing a will disinheriting her brother for his neglect of her in a long illness, an unusual legal achievement at that time.

[1] From 1512, he had a number of offices within the government administration in Finland.

In 1523, him and his brother was named riksråd by king Gustav, and came to be his trusted representatives in Finland, then a Swedish province.