Editing Sture (section)

==Sture Party==
[[File:The Entry of Sten Sture the Elder into Stockholm (Georg von Rosen) - Nationalmuseum - 19214.tif|thumb|270px|''The Entry of Sten Sture the Elder into Stockholm'', [[Georg von Rosen]] (1864).]]

Sten Sture the Elder, Svante Nilsson and Sten Sture the Younger are often known collectively as 'the Stures' ({{langx|sv|Sturarna}}), even though Svante never used the surname himself and seems to have considered himself a Natt och Dag rather than a Sture. The faction within Swedish society which supported the three regents in their efforts to maintain ''de facto'' Swedish independence from the [[Kalmar Union]] are known to historians as the Sture Party ({{ill|Sturepartiet|sv|Sturepartiet}}) or the Sture Men ({{langx|sv|Sturemän}}), though neither term was used at the time. 

[[Marxist historiography]] saw the conflict between the Sture Party and Swedish unionists as a [[class struggle]] between a generally unionist aristocracy and Church on the one hand, and a separatist-leaning [[peasantry]] and [[bourgeoisie]] on the other, with the latter social groups forming the backbone of the Sture Party. However, more recent historians have instead tended to stress the fact that factional allegiances were often unstable, and seem to have depended more on personal relationships and political circumstances rather than social station or a fixed ideological outlook.