Nils Allesson (Latin: ''Nicolaus Allonius'') was Archbishop of Uppsala 1292–1305.

Biography

According to the Archbishop's Chronicle, he was born in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the c ...

. It is believed that he studied at the

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in 1278. After returning to Sweden, he became deacon in Uppsala in 1286 and was elected archbishop in 1292 following the death of Archbishop Johannes who died during 1291. At this time, the cathedral chapter in Uppsala was in a dispute with Jens Grand,

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, who had

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status over the archbishop of Uppsala. The Archbishop did not approve of Nils Allesson and appealed the election to Rome. This occurred during a period without a valid Pope elected due to a deadlock among cardinals. Nils later travelled to Rome to be ordained in 1295 by Pope Boniface VIII. Nils was known as a vigorous archbishop. He founded and supervised institutions for safety and order, such as accommodations for travelers around his

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. In 1303, he participated in the first trial against Botulf Botulfsson for heresy. The same year, he opened the shrine of

Eric the Saint 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 C ...

and provided some relics to Duke Eric Magnusson, the son of King

Magnus I of Sweden Magnus the Strong ( sv, Magnus Nilsson; da, Magnus Nielsen Bricka, Carl Frederik, ''Dansk Biografisk Lexikon'', vol. XI aar – Müllner 1897, pp.45Available online/ref>) (about 1106 – 4 June 1134 in the Battle of Fotevik) was a Danish duke wh ...

References

External links

Nils Allesson
Nordisk familjebok

Other sources

*Åsbrink, Gustav & Westman, Knut B. ''Svea rikes ärkebiskopar från 1164 till nuvarande tid'' (Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm 1935) Roman Catholic archbishops of Uppsala 13th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Sweden 14th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Sweden Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown People from Uppsala {{Sweden-RC-archbishop-stub