On the occasion of her first wedding her uncle (Anna’s brother – who had joined the Dominican order) gave her half of his inheritance.
[1] She had inherited wealth from him as a result of an agreement that ensured the survivor benefitted at the expense of the deceased’s relatives.
[3] It is explicitly stated that it was she who personally handled the important business transactions with the iron and copper producers in Bergslagen, whose products belonged to the most valuable things exported from Sweden to Lübeck by the family trading house.
That started the process of the Reformation in Sweden, which included an Act of Parliament in 1527 that allowed the confiscation of clerical assets.
In 1527, she made use of the new law introduced during the Swedish Reformation which proscribed these types of donations to the Catholic church.