Anna Margareta Wrangel

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Anselm van Hulle : Portrait of Anna Margareta Wrangel, 1648
Portrait of Anna Margareta Wrangel, 1650

Anna Margareta Countess Wrangel née von Haugwitz (born January 16, 1622 in Calbe ; † March 20, 1673 in Stockholm ) was the wife of the Swedish military leader and statesman Count Carl Gustav Wrangel and therefore Countess of Salmis from 1651 to 1665, as a result of an exchange since 1665 Countess of Sölvesborg.

Life

Anna Margareta was the daughter of Balthasar Joachim von Haugwitz and Sophie von Veltheim . His father died when she was four years old, so it that the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , first as half, soon after as an orphan was going through. She was baptized in the Church of St. Stephen . In 1630 her mother and four of her five siblings were also killed in an attack by the Imperialists; the young Anna Margareta came to a Cistercian convent in Egeln , later the Countess von Löwenstein took care of her and gave her an education. The countess belonged to the circle around the Swedish general Johan Banér , who in 1636 became Anna Margareta's guardian. She thus belonged to the military camp of the Swedish army, where she soon met Major General Carl Gustav Wrangel, to whom she became engaged in May 1640 and whom she married on June 1st in Saalfeld . For the Wrangels family, this relationship with an impoverished German landed gentry was inappropriate, but he was not bothered by criticism from his peers. Anna Margareta bore her husband thirteen children between 1641 and 1665, but most of them died as children or young adults. After the end of the war, she stayed with Wrangel for a while in Nuremberg and then lived on the Pomeranian property of her husband, who in the meantime had not only become one of the most important generals of his time, but was also an art collector and patron , whereby an impressive shine fell on his rule in Pomerania and his home castle Skokloster near Uppsala .

Anna Margarete had not forgotten her suffering homeland and in her will donated 500 thalers in memory of the city of her birth, Calbe , whose interest income was distributed to the needy every year on June 1st, her wedding anniversary.

After a long illness she died in 1673, her husband, also seriously ill, three years later.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Common acquaintances: Sweden and Germany in the early modern period, ed. Ivo Asmus, Heiko Droste, Jens E. Olesen, p. 205 ( digitized version )