Gripsholms Slott 2018

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Besöker Gripsholms slott under vintern och vi kör en Ghost Radio session runt slottet. Lär dig mer om detta sagoslotts historia i videon.
We visit Gripsholms castle during the winter and make a Ghost Radio session around the castle. Learn more about the history about this fairytale castle during our one hour walk in this video.
Gripsholms slott har fått sitt namn efter en av den svenska medeltidens stora personligheter, Bo Jonsson Grip, som under senare hälften av 1300-talet uppförde den första borgen.
Borgen skänktes under sen medeltid till ett kartusianer - kloster som grundats i Pacis Mariae - Mariefred.
Den nya vasaborgen
Vid reformationen drogs klostret in till staten och 1537 började slottet uppföras under ledning av byggmästare Henrik von Köllen.
Slottet byggdes på Gustav Vasas initiativ och utgjorde en del av ett nytt nationellt försvarssystem. Samtidigt uppfördes slottet som en representativ bostad för renässansfursten Gustav Vasa.
A fortress was built at the location in the 1370s by Bo Jonsson Grip. It was sold to queen Margaret in 1404, and remained the property of the crown until it was acquired by Sten Sture the Elder in 1472.
It was donated to a convent for males of the order of the Carthusians in 1498, and functioned as a convent for almost thirty years.
In 1526, the Carthusian Abbey was confiscated by King Gustav I during the Swedish Reformation. The King tore it down, and built a fortified castle with circular corner towers and a wall, for defensive purposes. Of the original medieval fortress, only the façade of a wall remains.
King Gustav had it constructed to serve as one of the main residences of the royal house. The castle was constructed between 1537 and 1545, and often served as the residence of the royal court: during the Dacke War, for example, the royal children were housed there.
Between 1563 and 1567, King Eric XIV imprisoned his brother John and his consort Catherine Jagiellon in the castle. John's son Sigismund, later the King of Poland and Sweden, was born in the castle on June 20, 1566.[2] When Eric XIV was deposed by John, Gripsholm Castle came to serve as one of the castles were John had Eric imprisoned. The deposed king Eric was kept prisoner here from 1571 until 1573.