Olov Lambatunga
Olov Lambatunga († 1206) was from 1198 to about 1206, the fourth Archbishop of Uppsala. The significance of his epithet, which is attested since the 14th century is uncertain. He received his pallium from Pope Innocent III. and was in Lund by Archbishop Absalon, Primate of the Danish-Swedish church, consecrated in 1198.
The Pope told Olov to discontinue two of its predecessor Peter unlawfully consecrated bishops and to explain the choice of the third invalid. Should he refuse, this should perform Primate Absalon. The outcome of this conflict is not known.
In 1200, King Sverker the Younger gave the Swedish Church some important privileges: It was free of all taxes and from the secular jurisdiction. He also ordered to complete testamentary freedom for the benefit of the Church. He strengthened the Swedish Church in the domestic power struggle. But the position Sverker was too weak to enforce the privileges. It is the first document in which the liberation of the Swedish Church is documented from secular jurisdiction. These privileges met with great resistance at Great in the kingdom, for the exemption from secular jurisdiction detracted from their proceeds from fines and the testamentary freedom endangered the inheritance of the heirs.
In the tenure Olovs there was a fire in Old Uppsala, who also fell victim to the cathedral and in the even burned his pallium. The Archbishop of Lund Andreas Sunesen was subsequently authorized by the Pope to give him a new pallium. Ever notice that the Pope corresponded not with Olov, but with Andreas also about the conditions of the Swedish Church. Olov was ignored. The cause is not known.