Gillberg

Gillberg lies in western Värmland, a district of farmland and wooded valleys on routes towards Lake Vänern. Its church belonged to one of the region's wealthy parishes. In 1540 Georg Norman, an official of King Gustav Vasa, visited during the Reformation and seized valuable church property for the crown, leaving the chalice and paten behind. The episode brought the king's reorganisation of the Swedish Church directly into the life of the parish.