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Johannes was the secondArchbishop of Uppsala,Sweden, with a short-lived reign between 1185 and 1187.
His name is sometimes spelled as 'Johan', the Swedish form of 'Johannes', but since theSwedish language had yet to be established it is of little importance. Little is known about Johannes. Only a few months after the death of the first ArchbishopStefan, Johannes was selected by the Pope to be his successor. He was ordained by theArchbishop of Lund,Absalon—theprimate over the newly established Swedisharchbishopric—by November 1185.
In 1187, a ship from the not yet christianedEstonia enteredMälaren, a lake close to Uppsala, on a plundering expedition. It sailed toSigtuna, a prosperous city at that time, and plundered it. On its way back, barricades had been set up atAlmarestäket, the only exit point and the place where Johannes was currently residing, to prevent the ship from escaping. The ship was however able to get around the barricades through a creek.[citation needed] There followed a battle; Johennes was killed during thepillage of Sigtuna by the pagan raiders (Estonians,Curonians, orKarelians).[1]
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