Grönsö Manor
Grönsö Manor (older and alternative spelling Grönsöö) is a Manorialism, manor on the island Grönsö in Mälaren, Lake Mälaren. It lies in Enköping Municipality, Sweden. History and architecture There has been a small village on the site of the present manor at least since Middle Ages. During the 16th century the village consisted of five farms. A medieval manor, Utö hus, lies opposite Grönsö and is visible from the manor park. One of the farms of the medieval village was given as a gift to Johan Skytte by Prince (later King) Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus. Skytte was the tutor of the future king and would later become, among other things, chancellor of Uppsala University and member of the Privy Council of Sweden. Between 1608 and 1609 he acquired the rest of the village and founded the present manorial estate. A note from 1611 mentions that the building of the manor house had at that time just commenced. The first manor house was a rather elaborate build ...
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Johan Skytte
Johan Skytte (1577, in Nyköping – 15 March 1645, in Söderåkra, Sweden) was a Swedish statesman, and the founder of the ''Academia Gustaviana'' (today's University of Tartu in Estonia), in 1632. He was a son of the mayor of Nyköping, Bengt Nilsson Skräddare, and Anna Andersdotter.''Ericus Benedicti Schroderus, 1580–1647''
by Rikard Wingård, Svenskt Översättarlexikon. While attending school in his hometown and for the nine years he was studying at foreign universities, he used the surname Schroderus, a Latinized derivation from his paternal German surname ''Schröder'', as did also his elder brother, Ericus Schroderus (''Erik Benedict Schröder'') (c. ...
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