Piotr Nater
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But Eric insisted on conducting the campaign in person, and proved to be equally cowardly and incompetent, so that the war degenerated into a series of ruthless plundering expeditions, in which Norway and the frontier districts of Sweden suffered terribly.
The discontent already existing in this country was increased by the insane cruelty with which the king, who thought himself constantly beset by conspirators, proceeded against suspects of high and low degree.
In may fifteen sixty seven he caused the first lords of the realm, and among them the patriotic Sture family, to be cast into prison and there murdered.
He showed ever increasing signs of insanity.
Soon afterward he liberated his brother John from the captivity in Gripsholm on certain conditions, one of which was that he should recognise Eric's mistress, Catherine Manstochter, as queen, and her children as legitimate.
In fifteen sixty eight he actually married this woman, the daughter of a corporal.
Such a misalliance, together with the disgraceful defeats Eric had suffered at the hands of the Danes, roused the Swedish people to open rebellion.
Dukes John and Charles put themselves at the head of Malcontents, and in september fifteen sixty eight Eric, abandoned by nearly all his servants, had to surrender, and
The estates of the realm, in the beginning of the year fifteen sixty nine, deposed him and condemned him to be kept for life in royal imprisonment.
His children, as Base Born, were excluded from the succession.
John cruelly misused his authority.
The unfortunate Eric was kept in the harshest captivity, separated from his wife and children, and in the case of a rising in his favour threatened with immediate death.
No wonder that Eric, whose mind had long been diseased, had frequent attacks of delirium.
Finally, John had him poisoned, february fifteen seventy seven, in the forty fourth years of his age, and
Contrary to his agreement with his brother, Charles of Sudermanland, John received homage as sole king, John III, and his son Zigismund was acknowledged as his heir and successor in fifteen sixty-nine.
Like Eric at the beginning of his reign, he sought to lean upon the nobles, whose authority over the peasants he considerably enlarged, giving the higher nobility complete jurisdiction over their subjects.
As the Russians were threatening war, John concluded, at Stettin in fifteen seventy, a peace with the Danes, which imposed considerable money burdens on Sweden.
Hostilities with Russia were carried on without definite results.
John attempted to bring Sweden back to Catholicism.
Many circumstances favoured this undertaking.
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