Kalmar Bloodbath (1505)

[1] Historian Cornelius F. Wegener based the date on documents from Swedish and Danish archives.

Another historian, Gustaf Volmer Sylvander, would note that "The king undertook this bloodbath immediately after the sentence was handed down.

Sten Sture died over the winter of 1503-4 and was succeeded as regent by his distant cousin Svante Nilsson.

As part of the deal it was arranged to hold a summit meeting between the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian riksråd (privy councils) at Kalmar in July 1505 to discuss possible conditions under which the Swedes might accept Hans as king again.

In Kalmar, Hans assembled a court and tried Svante Nilsson in absentia for the crime of lèse-majesté, along with several other Swedish nobles including Nils Klausson, Sten Kristersson, Trotte Månsson (Eka), Erik Turesson, Åke Hansson (Thott), Erik Johansson Vasa, Tönne Eriksson (Thott) and Peder Turesson (Bielke).