Fief of Viborg - List of Fiefholders of The Viborg Castle

List of Fiefholders of The Viborg Castle

This is to list all those medieval and 16th century lords who held Viipuri castle and its fief, as fiefed chatelains, in the independent way ("margrave") and not simply as governors or bailiffs. The list is incomplete, due to the scarcity of historical sources and thus gaps.

In 1320, lord Peter Jonsson (Haak) purchased the castle and its dominions from the bailiff Efflerus set there by the deposed king Birger.

• 1320 - 1338 (or later) Peter Jonsson (and in c 1336 he was governor of all Finland)
• 1340 Dan Niklasson
• c 1348 Gerhard Skytte
• 1357 - 1364 Nils Turesson Bielke, kingdom's Lord High Justiciar, son-in-law of Peter Jonsson's brother
• 1360s: Nils' heirs, as pawn.
• 1370 King Albrekt
• 1371 - 1386 Bo Jonsson Grip (all Finland), Lord High Justiciar
• 1386 - 1399 Karl, Charles Ulvsson, Lord of Tofta, kingdom's Lord High Constable, stepson of a niece of Peter Jonsson
• 1403 - 1417 Tord Bonde, Lord High Constable, distant cousin of Peter Jonsson
• 1417 - 1442 Kristiern, Krister Nilsson Vaasa, Lord High Justiciar, brother-in-law of Tord Bonde
• 1440 - 1448 Karl, Charles Knutsson, Lord of Fogelvik (b. 1408 - d. 1470), Lord High Constable, grandson of Charles Ulvsson and of Tord Bonde, became in 1448 king
• 1457 - 1481 Erik Akselsson Tott (b. c.1420 - d. 1487), great-grandson of Tord Bonde, son of a first cousin of Charles Knutsson
• 1481 Lars, Laurens Axelsen Thott, brother of previous
• 1483 Ivar, Iver Axelsen Thott, Overlord of Gotland, brother of previous, son-in-law of Charles Knutsson
• 1483 - 1495 Sten Sture the Elder, Kingdom's Regent, nephew of Charles Knutsson, great-grandson of Charles Ulvsson, and great-great-great-grandnephew of Nils Turesson
  • his deputy: Nils Eriksson Gyllenstierna, grandson of Charles Knutsson
• 1495 - 1496 Knut, Knut Posse (d. 1500)
• 1497 - 1501 again Sten Sture the Elder (b. 1440 - d. 1503), between his terms as Regent of Sweden
• 1499 - May 1511 Erik Turesson Bielke (d. 1511), great-great-grandnephew of Nils Turesson
• 1511 - 1513 Gunilla Johansdotter Bese, widow of Eric Bielke, her predecessor
• 1513 - 1520 Tony Eriksson Tott, son-in-law of the two previous, great-nephew of Erik Akselsson, Laurens and Ivar of Gotland
• 1525 - 1534 Johan, Count of Hoya and Bruchhausen (d. 1535), son-in-law of Sten Sture's nephew, brother-in-law of the reigning king Gustav I.

In 1534, Gustav I of Sweden, Sten Sture's grandnephew, abolished the independent fief.

Lord Nicholas Grabbe was the next commander of the Viipuri castle, 1534–45, but he did not receive the feudal privileges held by earlier chatelains.