Tofta was a
seat farm
In Scandinavia, a seat farm (Danish: ''sædegård''; Norwegian: ''setegård''/''setegard''; Swedish: ''sätesgård'' or ''säteri''; Finnish: ''säteriratsutila'') was a farm where a nobleman had his permanent residence. They were found in the Kin ...
and noted manorial lordship in medieval Sweden, located in
Adelsö
Adelsö is an island in the middle of Lake Mälaren in Sweden, near Björkfjärden. The island is part of Ekerö Municipality and Stockholm County. It is about by ferry and road west of downtown Stockholm. The administrative center of the im ...
,
Uppland
Uppland () is a historical province or ' on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. On the small uninhab ...
. Its most prominent holder was
Charles Ulvsson, Lord of Tofta
Charles of Tofta, Swedish: ''Karl Ulfson, Sparre av Tofta '' (ca. 1320-30 – 1407) was a 14th-century Swedish magnate and High Constable of Sweden.
Biography
His birth year is unknown, but scholarly estimates point to 1320s or early 1330s a ...
, maternal grandfather of king
Charles VIII of Sweden
Charles VIII ( sv, Karl; 1408–1470), contemporaneously known as Charles II and called Charles I in Norwegian context, was king of Sweden (1448–1457, 1464–1465 and 1467–1470) and king of Norway (1449–1450).
Regnal name
Charles was the ...
.
Charles VIII had an invented, partially fabricated genealogy published (see
Nils av Tofta in Swedish) to create himself a descent from an invented granddaughter of king
Eric IX of Sweden
Eric IX, (Swedish: ''Erik Jedvardsson; Erik den helige; Sankt Erik''; d. 18 May 1160) also called Eric the Holy, Saint Eric, and Eric the Lawgiver, was a Swedish king in the 12th century, 1156–1160. The ''Roman Martyrology'' of the Catholic ...
the Saint through some historically unattested earlier lords of Tofta.
Mälaren
Buildings and structures in Stockholm County
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