Nicolaus Ragvaldi (Latinized form of Swedish Nils Ragvaldsson) (born in the early 1380s and died on 17 February 1448) was bishop of Växjö and from 1438–1448

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, Sweden. He is known as an early representative of the Gothicist tradition. On 12 November 1434 he held a speech at the

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, where he argued that the Swedish monarch, Eric of Pomerania, was a successor to the Gothic kings, and that the Swedish delegation deserved senior rank. The Spanish delegation responded with a claim of seniority because of the Visigoths. Notes of these speeches were written down and preserved, and included by

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when he wrote the influential ''History of the Nordic People'' about 150 years later. His research results resulted in

Gustav Vasa Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ('' Riksför ...

's son styling himself as Eric XIV, although his father disapproved.

References

Article ''Nils Ragvaldsson''
from the

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