Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa

Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa.

Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa (1497 – 31 December 1536), also called Margareta Vasa and Margareta of Hoya, was a Swedish noble, sister of king Gustav I of Sweden.

Margareta was born to Erik Johansson and Cecilia Månsdotter. She was married to Joakim Brahe 30 March 1516. In 1520, her husband and father were executed at the Stockholm bloodbath. Margareta, as well as her mother, her sisters and her grandmother, belonged to the women taken prisoner to Denmark with the former regent, her aunt Christina Gyllenstierna, and was impriosoned in the feared Blue Tower in Copenhagen. There, several of them, among them Margaretas mother and sisters, died of the plague.

In 1524, Margareta was released and returned to Sweden, were her brother was now king. On 15 January 1525, she married the German count Johan of Hoya and Brockenhusen. She had also inherited the estate Rydboholm Castle after her father. In 1528-29, she visited Germany and Lübeck. At her return, she and Wulf Gyl were held captive by mayor Nils Arvidsson in Jönköping, during a rebellion which broke out at this point. Margareta and her husband eventually came at odds with the king. The queen, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, is said to have slandered the king before them. In 1534, they broke with the king and left for Germany.

Margareta became a widow in 1535, when Hoya died after having participated in the so called Count's Feud in Denmark. She did not return to Sweden, as she feared that her brother would hurt her children. The king wrote several letters and asked her to return. She died in Tallinn in Estonia.

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References

• Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon (SBL), cd-skiva, band 19
• Lars-Olof Larsson, Gustav Vasa - landsfader eller tyrann?

Litterature

• Wilhelmina Stålberg (in Swedish) : Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (Notes on Swedish women)

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Name	Eriksdotter, Margareta
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Date of birth	1497
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Date of death	31 December 1536
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