This request was complied with. But
when, soon after, Erik appeared again before the regent with a letter
from the archbishop informing him that the Chapter of Upsala had decided
on Gustaf Trolle as the new archbishop, Sture was so startled that he
wrote to Upsala to say that he had never consented to such a
proposition, but nevertheless if God wished it he would raise no
opposition. The pope having already declared that no one should be
appointed without the regent's consent, no effort was spared to dispose
Sture well towards the new candidate, and with so good result that when
the archbishop's messengers went to Rome to secure the confirmation,
they carried with them a letter from Sture to his legate in Rome,
instructing him to do all he could before the pope in favor of Gustaf
Trolle.[18]

In May, 1515, the young man was consecrated archbishop of Upsala by the
pope,[19] and started in the following summer for the North. Passing
through Lubeck, where he is rumored to have had an audience of
Christiern,[20] he pursued his journey by water, and at last cast anchor
off the Swedish coast about twelve miles from Stockholm. Here he was met
by certain of the Danish party, who urged him to give the cold shoulder
to the regent. Instead, therefore, of proceeding to the capital, he
drove direct to Upsala, and was installed in his new office: all this in
spite of the fact that the old archbishop had assured the regent, before
he wrote to Rome, that he would not hand over Upsala nor Staeket to
Trolle till the latter had sworn allegiance to Sture.[21] The immediate
effect of his investiture was to augment the haughtiness of the young
archbishop. Scarcely had he become domiciled in Upsala, when he wrote a
letter to the regent warning him that he, the archbishop, was about to
visit with punishment all who had wronged his father or grandfather, or
his predecessor in the archiepiscopal chair. To this the regent, wishing
if possible to avert trouble, answered that if any persons had done the
wrong complained of, he would see to it that they should be punished.
But the archbishop was in no mood for compromise. The breach now opened,
he resolved to make it wider; and he had no difficulty in finding
pretext. The fief of Staeket had long been a bone of contention between
the Church and State. Though for many years in the hands of the
archbishops, it had never been clearly settled whether they held it as a
right or merely by courtesy of the