Sofia Vasa 1547–1611

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Duke Magnus and Sofia Duke Magnus II of Saxe-Lauenburg Gustav Vasa had a daughter named Sophia, born in 1570. She married Duke Magnus II of Saxe-Lauenburg. Magnus was the cousin of Eric XIV and came at the beginning of his government to Sweden. There betrothed Magnus and Erik XIV's half-sister Princess Sophia. It is considered likely that she was pressured to agree to the marriage with Magnus against their will. Marriage is considered to have been arranged by Erik because he needed the support of Magnus faced his own planned marriage with Karin Månsdotter that Magnus during the negotiations had pledged to defend. Eric's relationship with their sisters Sophia and Elizabeth was at this time poor, and he wrote in January 1567: "teased me some rogues to violent anger and said that in addition to be hired by my sisters." Magnus stood later in the king by serving as a scout on his brothers andtheir relatives. At the trial on Svartsjo 1567 Magnus appeared as one of the informers against the accused men. The reward came in July 1568 when Magnus and Sofia's wedding was celebrated in conjunction with Erik XIV and Karin Månsdotter wedding. In September the same year abandoned Magnus Erik XIV and joined the rebellious dukes. 1571 nedlade Magnus father governmentalityof Saxe-Lauenburg favor of Magnus younger brother Duke Franz II of Saxe-Lauenburg. Magnus then returned to Germany, mobilized troops and tried to forcibly take the duchy from his brother in 1574. Theuprising failed, and Magnus fled back to Sweden. The dispute with his brother Franz (Franz II of Saxe-Lauenburg (1547-1619), Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg) on governmentality of Saxe-Lauenburg first stopped in 1588. This year, the escrow Franz Magnus at Ratzeburg Castle, sentenced to life imprisonment. Magnus died there 14 May 1603. Sofia Gustav Daughter Magnus's wife Sophia, daughter of King Gustav Vasa, would, like her sisters, have had to learn the German language as a child, in addition to household chores andto behave in public. In 1556, she, like her sisters, her portrait painted, poems that praised her virtues written by hovpoeten Henricus Mollerus and fitted with a dowry of 100,000 dollars to launch the political marriage market. She married, probably against his will, with Duke Magnus, by Erik XIV's auspices. The marriage was unhappy. Magnus was brutal in his behavior toward the spouse Sofia Vasa and violent towards his subordinates. He is described as one of the most famous members of his race and the epitome of a crude German pikemen officer. Magnus committed numerous abuses, including prison he goldsmith Evert van Dortt when he visited Sofia and forced under threat of death him to surrender some gold objects that belonged to her sister Elizabeth, which meant that Magnus was convicted of theft. Magnus also pawned jewelry of Sofia to finance the attempt to conquer Saxe-Lauenburg 1571. During 1577 Sofia will reportedly have been isolated from the outside world by Magnus, who forbade her to accept invitations and confiscated her letter. John III did what he could to protect his sister and he himself was probably very tired of his brother. John III in 1575 gave Magnus Sonnenburgs Slottslän in Saaremaa in fief to get him out of the country, but he was thrown out from there because of abuse of residents. He alsohappened once in contravention of the Danish governor of Arensburg (Saaremaa), which was causing a large new Nordic war. Soneburg was captured by the Danes in the same year (1575), why Magnus again returned to Sweden. 1576 Magnus came in fierce conflict with John when he refused to allow their farmers to pay taxes or perform chronograph labor. In January 1578 John III ordered that gold, silver and grain at the family seat Ekolsund would be seized and Magnus arrested and imprisoned. The family's property was transferred in only Sofia's name, she had sole custody of his son, which Magnus had wanted to deny her, and in May 1578 was relegated Magnus from Sweden. Magnus was reported in 1581 to have spread rumors and slander about Sofia in Germany, and the emperor commanded him without success at the Swedish request to cease the defamation that could jeopardize Sofia rights to their livgeding or children's inheritance. Magnus and Sofia had six children, but only one, the son Gustaf, survived. Sofia was considered to raise her son Gustaf bad; In 1580 he was sent to his uncle Charles (later Charles IX) court as was normal for a contemporary prince's upbringing, but the following year asked Sofia to get him back and she seems then to have retained him with himself, which was not the norm fora contemporary princely person, especially a son, who usually had to grow up in a court at a distance from their parents. She was considered to pamper Gustav, and in 1584 Charles assessed him as spoiled and insufferable. Sofia was not considered to have been a good steward of his fiefdom: she prayed often for financial assistance from his brothers because of his poor economy, often changed positions in his court, and complained that she was not obeyed by his staff. Her estate operations is deemed to have failed. Sophia must have suffered from some kind of mental illness. However, no mention so much about this in contemporary documents. Sofia participated at times in court life and public representative data. She was, however, outside of politics. Her mental status is implied when she was often in the letter are asked not to grieve and worry so she got sick, "thereby could get himself in any accident, and perchance a severe illness." Sofia lived on Ekolsund until her death in 1611