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Erik Johansson (Vasa) was the Lord of Rydboholm in the Roslagen. He was born around the year 1470 to Johan Kristiersson (Vasa) and Birgitta Gustafsdotter (Sture) in a town named Örby in what was then Uppland (today: Uppsala), Sweden. He was one of four children from Johan and Birgitta. He married Cecilia Månsdotter and had eight children with her. Their children were:

1. Gustav Eriksson (Vasa) (May 12, 1495 - September 29, 1560)

First son of Erik Johansson: King Gustav I of Sweden

• Gustav Eriksson would become King of Sweden in 1523

1. Margareta Eriksdotter (Vasa) (1497 - December 31, 1536)
2. Johan Eriksson (b. 1499, d. young)
3. Magnus Eriksson (1501 - 1529)
4. Anna Eriksdotter (1503 - 1545)
5. Birgitta Eriksdotter (b. 1505, d. young)
6. Marta Eriksdotter (1507 - 1523)
7. Emerentia Eriksdotter (1507 - 1523)

All of their children were born in either Orkesta or Rydboholm, in the present-day county of Stockholm (Swedish: Stockholms Län), in southeastern Sweden. He died on November 8, 1520 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Erik Johansson was a faithful adherent of the Stures, a powerful and influential family in Sweden from the late 15th century to the early 16th century, and was notorious for his irritable and arbitrary temper. He assisted the Stures in fighting against the Danes, who controlled most of Sweden during the early 16th century. When the Danes, under Christian II, conquered Sweden and took the capital, Stockholm, in 1520 several members of the Sture party were executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath in October of that year, among whom was Erik Johansson. His first son, Gustav Eriksson (Vasa), future King of Sweden and founder of the House of Vasa, survived by hiding.

• House of Vasa List
• Foundation of modern Sweden
• Line of succession to the Swedish Throne
• Kalmar Union
• Swedish History

• Ahnlund, Nils. Gustav Adolf the Great. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1940.