Anna Margareta von Haugwitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAnna Margareta von Haugwitz
Swedish countess
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Place of Birth: Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Anna Margareta von Haugwitz
- Anna Margareta von Haugwitz (16 January 1622 in Calbe (Saale) – 20 March 1673 in Stockholm), was a German noble, married to the Swedish count, statesman and military commander Carl Gustaf Wrangel. 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, who married the Swedish commander Johan Banér 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 powerful 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 Years' War, she lived mainly at the estates of Wrangel in Swedish Pomerania.
- 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.
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