Sune Sik, (born c. 1154), was allegedly a Swedish prince. According to

Olaus Petri Olof Persson, sometimes Petersson (6 January 1493 – 19 April 1552), better known under the Latinisation of names, Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri (or less commonly, Olavus Petri), was a clergyman, writer, judge, and major contributor to the ...

, he would have been a younger son of King

Sverker I of Sweden Sverker the Elder (Old Swedish: ''Swærkir konongær gambli''; c. 1100 - 25 December 1156), also known as Sverker I, was King of Sweden from about 1132 until his murder. Of non-royal descent, he founded the House of Sverker, the rulers of which ...

and father of

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. In surviving contemporary documents one ''Sune Sik'' can be found who lived much later. That Sune Sik made a donation to

Vreta Abbey Vreta Abbey (), in operation from the beginning of the 12th century to 1582, was the first nunnery in Sweden, initially Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine and later Cistercian, and one of the oldest in Scandinavia. It was located in the present- ...

as late as in 1297. He might have ordered a restoration of a chapel in which he eventually was interred, and later Cistercian tradition may then have turned him into a prince. This has caused some historians to view Olaus Petri's account of him as unreliable. Sune Sik, as a son of King Sverker, is counted by other Swedish historians as a person of history and the man buried at Vreta (see photo). According to 18th-century Swedish

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Magnus Boræn, Sune was also

Duke of Östergötland Duchies in Sweden have been allotted since the 13th century to powerful Swedes, almost always to princes of Sweden (only in some of the dynasties) and wives of the latter. From the beginning these duchies were often centers of regional power, w ...

(at a time when the use of such a title is not known in SwedenProf. Jan Svanberg in ''Furstebilder från folkungatid'' p. 97).

References

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