 It is difficult to say anything definite about the status of the office at that time, but sources from the 14th century shows the width of the power of the Lord High Steward.The influence seems to have been vast, as long as the steward managed to stay out of doing things against the will of the king himself.The steward was the king's closest confidant and during the guardian regency at the time of Magnus Eriksson's adolescence (1319-1331), the title holder (mostly Knut Jonsson) was the mightiest man in Sweden.