Eric Trolle was elected regent of Sweden in 1512, during the era of Kalmar Union.
Background
Eric Arvidsson was born around 1460 into an important family of high nobility and was apparently aiming at a clerical career. His father had connected him to the powerful family Thott by marrying Beata Ivarsdotter Tott (died 1487) as his second wife in 1466. The last stepmother of Eric"s was his father"s third wife Brita Turesdotter Bielke.
Education
Eric studied at the universities of Rostock and Cologne, had positions as Canon in Uppsala and Linköping but was never ordained.
Career
He was Justiciar of Närke and a Lord High Councillor of Sweden from 1487. Eric was elected Regent (riksföreståndare) at the meeting of the High Council of Sweden in 1512 upon the death of regent Svante Nilsson, Lord of Ekesiö, but never actually took office, being superseded by Svante"s son, the young Sten Sture the Younger. She was a great-granddaughter of King Charles VIII of Sweden.
Ingeborg Filipsdotter Tott (married at Fållnäs 30 September 1487, drowned 1495 in Lake Mälaren) Karin Eriksdotter Gyllenstierna (married about 1512, died about or before 12 March 1562) first marriage second marriage.