Talk:Jöran Persson

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Should the article at any point mention that an asteroid is named after him? [1] I don't know if this is customary...only noticed it because I checked "what links here". Jwrosenzweig 03:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

The fact that an asteroid is named after him is recorded at Meanings of asteroid names (9001-9500). I did not include the fact within the article as it does not appear to be normal practice to do so, at least this is what a cursory browse throusgh the list suggests. I don't know why this is, although it might have something to do with the sheer number of asteroids. Rje 14:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

That makes perfect sense to me: I was merely shocked by the fact that anyone would have named an asteroid for the fellow. :) Jwrosenzweig 05:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Without source verifying the specification of naming the asteroid, it could be that it honors Göran Persson, swedish Premier in the late 1990's, and not the Persson from 17th century. The latter could be more palatable persona to honor. --131.207.161.152 10:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

The asteroid was discovered in 1980, only a few months afterr Göran Persson was elected to parliament for the first time. It is also general practice to wait a hundred years before naming an asteroid after a political or military figure (although there are exceptions to this). The link given above is from Uppsala University; as one of their scientists discovered the asteroid, I suppose they are as reliable as anyone on the matter. Rje 12:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Okay, that's reliable enough. Of course, it could have taken a while for the asteroid to be named after being discovered, right? --131.207.161.152 12:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

It's possible...I'd note also, though, that Uppsala is in the general area from which Persson came, and it is also in the general area which he was lord of (however briefly). I don't see that there's any reason to think him an unlikely choice for an Uppsala astronomer who's naming several asteroids every year in honor of notable Swedes. Point's a little moot anyway, as it's not mentioned in the article, right? :) Jwrosenzweig 02:54, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Rome?

Just noticed someone has changed the link to Rome so that it points to the Holy Roman Empire. I had assumed from context that the estates in Vastergotland that Persson was investigating were loyal to the Catholic Church (often referred to semi-casually as "Rome"), not to the HRE. Should that link point to the HRE, the Catholic Church, or to Rome? Just curious, Jwrosenzweig 06:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I was referring to the Catholic Church, although I should have made myself more clear. I changed the link to "Holy See", as the crux of the problem was that the people were still sending money to Rome rather than their religious beliefs. Although I would imagine that having a fairly large bloc of Catholics would have annoyed Gustav I twenty years after he led a Protestant Reformation in Sweden. Rje 12:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Johan III

Erik XIV's brother's name is not John, it's Johan. ToVinge 20:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

In Swedish his name is Johan, but in English it is translated as John. This is a very common practice with the names of foreign monarchs. Rje 21:02, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Erroneous information about Joran's descendants

I just removed the following statement about Joran's son Anders and his wife Brita: "(their child, Brita Andersdotter married Georg Petre, descendant of the Baron of Writtle and Katherine Somerset, who was fleeing to Sweden from England because he was a Catholic and Oliver Cromwell was coming to power)". The statement makes two errors -- first, Brita does not marry a Georg Petre, but rather marries Salomon Standorph...it's Brita and Salomon's great-grandson who marries into the Petre line, specifically a granddaughter and great-granddaughter of men named Georg Petre. Secondly, the elder Georg Petre is not the descendant of the Petres of Writtle (as was long claimed by some sloppy family histories), but was the Mayor of the town of Montrose, Scotland, before emigrating to Sweden: the current Lord Petre and his son have done the homework and established that no apparent link exists between the two families. Links that help substantiate this are here http://www.genvagar.nu/show.asp?PersonId=346692 and here http://home.swipnet.se/~w-37418/genealogy.html but in all honesty I'm speaking largely on the basis of my and my mother's genealogical research into this line over the last decade plus, as she and I are direct descendants of Brita Andersdotter and have worked to sort out the claims about the family. I'm leaving this here mostly to forestall anybody re-adding the claim, which I'll admit is floating around the Internet as bad family history tends to do. If anyone has modern and well-documented sources to challenge either of the errors I'm documenting, I'd love to see them, not just for the article's sake, but for my own research. Thanks! Jwrosenzweig (talk) 22:23, 9 June 2012 (UTC)