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Telge
hus
,
or
Tälje
hus
also
called
Ragnhildsborg
was
a
medieval
castle,
located
on
Slottsholmen
(formerly
Ragnhildsholmen
)
in
Linasundet
,
outside
the
district
Brunnsäng
in
northern
Södertälje
in
Södermanland
.
The
first
castle
was
built
in
the
14th
century
and
the
place
is
first
mentioned
in
writing
in
1400.
From
here,
Telgehus
County
was
administered
between
the
years
1318
and
1527.
The
county
included
Öknebo
,
Hölebo
and
parts
of
Svartlösa
district
,
ie
today's
Södertälje
and
Nykvarn
municipalities
and
surroundings.
Archaeological
excavations
have
shown
that
the
castle
was
surrounded
by
a
moat
and
a
pole
barrier
that
stretched
over
large
parts
of
Linasundet.
Between
1434–36,
Engelbrekt
Engelbrektsson
and
Karl
Knutsson
(Bonde)
led
uprisings
against
the
Kalmar
Union
and
Erik
of
Pomerania
.
The
king's
bailiffs
were
expelled
from
their
castles,
which
were
then
burned.
To
secure
the
important
trade
in
Lake
Mälaren
,
Engelbrekt
tried
to
have
a
canal
built
through
Telge
(later
renamed
Södertälje),
a
work
that
was
never
completed.
With
a
canal
through
Telge,
traffic
between
the
Baltic
Sea
and
Lake
Mälaren
could
be
routed
past
the
union-loyal
Stockholm.
Engelbrekt
promised
several
important
trading
towns,
among
them
the
German
Hansa
,
free
lease
through
Telge.
This
is
said
to
have
upset
the
bailiff
Bengt
Stensson
who
was
originally
one
of
Engelbrekt's
supporters.
After
Stensson
seized
a
German
merchant
ship,
Telge's
house
was
set
on
fire
by
Erik
Puke,
who
was
one
of
Engelbrekt's
closest
men.
In
1448,
Karl
Knutsson
(Farmer)
was
appointed
king,
and
he
then
began
the
work
of
rebuilding
a
castle
on
Slottsholmen.
During
the
early
16th
century,
Telge
house
was
described
as
"fallen
over".
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