king and queen visited their son Sigismund III Wasa in Reval in 1589, he and Axel Bielke was appointed to serve as regent during their absence. He was described as clever and skillful and worked to increase the power of nobility against the crown. He sided with Sigimund III against Duke Charles. His son Svante fled to Denmark after the War against Sigismund to avoid execution. Hogenskild was tried during the Linköping Bloodbath in 1600, but was imprisoned rather than executed. In 1605, however, he was found to have been involved in a correspondence judged as treasonable alongside his daughter Ebba Bielke. He was executed for treason in Stockholm. References Bielke, Hogenskild Nilsson i Herman Hofberg, Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (andra upplagan, 1906) 1538 births 1605 deaths Members of the Privy Council of Sweden 16th-century Swedish politicians 16th-century Swedish military personnel 16th-century executions by Sweden People executed for treason against Sweden People of the Northern Seven Years' War Swedish courtiers People of the War against Sigismund