Brita Tott

3 March 1498) was a Danish and Swedish noble, landowner and royal county administrator She was judged for treason and for the forgery of seals.

[1] Brita was born the eldest daughter of two Danish nobles; statesman Olov Axelsson Tott (d. 1464) and Karen Jensdotter Falk (d. 1429).

She was in 1442 married to the Swedish noble councillor Eringisle Nilsson the younger (d. 1469) son of Nils Erengislesson (d. 1442) and Märta Magnusdotter (d. bf 1424).

The following years was spent on the managing of her large estates and the ownerships over them which, due to their size, was a question debated in the Swedish council.

In 1479, she was put on trial in her absence in Stockholm for forgery and judged guilty of having illegally sold her estate Vallö to the Danish crown.

In her will, she left her estate both to the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Elder and to Uppsala Cathedral, which aroused great confusion.