Bjurum

Stora Bjurum was originally known as Byurum and Biureem; from biur, an old word for beaver.

Being without own surviving children, she ceded the property in 1491 to her niece, lady Kerstin Eriksdatter Gyldenstierne, a half-Danish, surpassing all her brothers.

Lady Kerstin was married with lord Hans Aagesen Thott, another Danish-born noble.

The couple's son Lord Åke Hansson Tott, marshal of Sweden, was the next owner.

In the 1730s, the manor was owned by count Erik Fredrik Stenbock (1686-1739) and came to be infamous in contemporary Sweden as the scene of the Passionsspelen på Stora Bjurum, supported by his wife Eva Margareta Clerck.