Anna Margareta von Haugwitz ( 16 January 1622 in Calbe (Saale) - 20 March 1673 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

), was a German noble, married to the Swedish count, statesman and military commander Carl Gustaf Wrangel

Carl Gustaf Wrangel

Carl Gustaf Wrangel was a high-ranking Swedish noble, statesman and military commander in the Thirty Years', Torstenson, Bremen, Second Northern and Scanian Wars....

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Anna Margareta von Haugwitz was a poor orphan from the untitled lower German nobility when she, as a ward of the German Elisabet Juliana of Erbach

Elisabet Juliana Banér

Elisabet Juliana Banér née Elisabet Juliana of Erbach , was a German noble, married to the Swedish commander Johan Banér. She is considered to have vielded a certain influence upon Banér and the Swedish army during the thirty year's war.- Biography :Elisabet Juliana was the daughter of count Georg...

, who married the Swedish commander Johan Banér

Johan Banér

Johan Banér was a Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War.-Biography:Johan Banér was born at Djursholm Castle in Uppland. As a four year old he was forced to witness how his father, the Privy Councillour Gustaf Banér, and uncle, Sten Axelsson Banér , were executed at the Linköping Bloodbath...

 in 1636, met Carl Gustaf Wrangel in the Swedish military camp. The couple fell in love and married for love in 1640, which was unusual and controversial and aroused attention - Wrangel was a member of the most powerfull Swedish nobility and his family disproved because she was of the untitled nobility as well as poor. The relationship between the couple was described as happy. After the Thirty Year's War, she lived mainly at the estates of Wrangel in Swedish Pomerania

Swedish Pomerania

Swedish Pomerania was a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815, situated on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the southern Baltic coast, including Pomerania and parts...

. At her death, she provided a sum of money to her birth city of Calbe, to be handed out every year at the date of her birth.

External links

• Archive of Anna Margareta von Haugwitz - Lebengeschichte (in German
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