Jakob Ulvsson (1430s – spring 1521) was the archbishop of Uppsala and primate of the Roman Catholic Church of Sweden from 1469 to 1515. He was also the founder of

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

in 1477.

Biography

Jakob Ulvsson came from a noble family background. He was born at Hacksta gård at Trögds härad in Uppland. He studied at the universities in

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(

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in 1458/1459) and

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( magister 1460). He spent the years 1465–1470 in

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and was meanwhile appointed Canon of Uppsala in 1465 and

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in 1468. Despite King Karl Knutsson wanting to make one of his own relatives Archbishop of Uppsala, Jakob Ulvsson was appointed archbishop by the pope in 1469 and ordained in

in 1470, after which he returned to

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. In the conflicts between the Danish king Christian I of Denmark and the Swedish regent Sten Sture, Jakob took a mediating position, trying as far as possible to avoid open warfare, especially in Uppland. After Sten Sture's victory in the Battle at Brunkeberg in 1471, the situation stabilized and he participated in the work of the privy council. He is usually regarded is the main initiator of the university in Uppsala, which was founded after having received papal approval in the form of a bull of Pope Sixtus IV dated 27 February 1477. Jakob Ulvsson was appointed first chancellor of the university. He resigned from the archbishopric in 1515. He was Archbishop Emeritus of Uppsala until his death at Mariefred Charterhouse in 1521.

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*Gunnar Olsson, "Jakob Ulvsson", '' Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', Vol. 20, pp. 97–103.

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