Anna Margareta von Haugwitz

In 1630, her mother and four of her five siblings were killed when imperial troops stormed Calbe; only Anna Margareta was able to escape, finding shelter in the Cistercian convent in Egeln.

In 1636, Anna Margareta became a ward of the German countess Elisabeth Juliane of Erbach, who married the Swedish commander Johan Banér that year.

Anna Margareta met Carl Gustaf Wrangel in a Swedish military camp; they became engaged in May 1640 and married for love on 1 June in Saalfeld.

The marriage was controversial because Carl Gustaf was a member of the powerful Wrangel family, who thought that his relationship with an untitled and poor German noblewoman was inappropriate, but the criticism of his peers did not bother him much.

After the Thirty Years' War, they lived mainly at the Wrangel estates in Swedish Pomerania, where Anna Margareta died.

Anna Margareta von Haugwitz in 1649. She had given birth to six children by this point, of which four had died.
Anna Margareta von Haugwitz by Matthaeus Merian the Younger (1648 or 1651). This very intimate portrait shows the pregnant Anna Margareta with a lamb and a globe, symbols of Christian devotion and eternity.