[1] Sture was born in 1493, as the son of Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden) and Iliana Gisladotter Gädda, heiress of Ulvåsa.

After Sture promised to continue union negotiations with Denmark, the High Council accepted him as regent replacing Eric Trolle.

When Christian II started an invasion of Sweden, Sture was mortally wounded at the battle of Bogesund on 19 January 1520 and died on the ice of lake Mälaren on his way back to Stockholm.

[6] His marriage in 1511 to Christina Gyllenstierna, great-granddaughter of King Charles VIII, produced six children, but only one of them survived to adulthood, the son Svante Stensson Sture, later elevated to Riksmarsk and Count of Stegeholm.

In the 20th century, his distant direct descendant, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married the hereditary Prince Gustaf Adolf.