Jon Svaleson Smør (c. 1420–1483) was a
Norwegian knight,
riksråd
Riksrådet (in Norwegian and Swedish), Rigsrådet (in Danish) or (English: the Council of the Realm and the Council of the State – sometimes translated as the "Privy Council") is the name of the councils of the Scandinavian countries that rule ...
and
regent.
Jon was a son of the knight
Svale Jonson Smør Hr. Svale Jonson Smør ( – aft. 1442) was a Norwegian people, Norwegian knight and Rigsraadet, riksråd (cabinet minister).
Svale was a son of the royal ombudsman Jon Hallvardson Smør. He was one of the most powerful men in Norway in the early 1 ...
and his wife Sigrid Gunnarsdotter Kane. He was a knight from 1449, and cabinet minister from 1458. In the 1470s he was a
fehird (tax minister) and
høvedsmann (lord) of the king's farm. Later, he was one of main forces behind the reactivation of the Norwegian
Riksråd
Riksrådet (in Norwegian and Swedish), Rigsrådet (in Danish) or (English: the Council of the Realm and the Council of the State – sometimes translated as the "Privy Council") is the name of the councils of the Scandinavian countries that rule ...
at the end of the reign of King
Christian I. As a riksråd, and from 1482 regent, he led the policy of the Riksråd to maintain Norway's political interests during the interregnum between 1481 and 1483.
Jon was probably after 1450 married to Gudrun Olavsdotter (c. 1415–1476/86), daughter of the knight
Olav Håkonsson
Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" a ...
and Ingebjørg Jonsdotter. It is unknown if they ever had any children together. Jon died of
drowning at Jersøy, near
Tønsberg, the last man in the direct male line of the
Smør family.
See also
*
Smør
*
Norwegian nobility
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Sources
*Handegård, Odd (2008)
"''Vår felles slektshistorie. Hardanger, Sunnhordland og Ryfylke m.m. 1170-1650''" p. 109-111
*Opsahl, Erik
Jon Svalesson Smør – utdypning (NBL-artikkel) Store norske leksikon
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1420s births
1483 deaths
15th-century Norwegian monarchs
Norwegian knights
Deaths by drowning in Norway
Year of birth uncertain
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