Thomas Simonsson was a Swedish theologian and poet

Poet

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 and the Bishop

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 of Diocese of Strängnäs

Diocese of Strängnäs

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 1429 – 1443, in the Church of Sweden

Church of Sweden

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. He is of unknown origin.

He became canon

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 in the diocese of Strängnäs in 1405 and studied liberal arts

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 and canon law

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 at the universities in Paris

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 and Leipzig

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. He was one of the executor

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s of Philippa of England's

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 will

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In 1432 he was nominated archbishop

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 by the King Eric of Pomerania

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, but when the archbishop Jöns Håkansson died, the chapter

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 elected Olov Laurensson new archbishop against the King's volition.

He was buried in Strängnäs Cathedral

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