Christina Anna Skytte

[1] Christina Anna Skytte was born in the parish of Ålems at Mönsterås in Kalmar County, Sweden.

Her parents were Anna Bielkenstjerna (c. 1617–1663) and Jacob Skytte af Duderhof (1616-1654) who served as governor of Östergötland during 1645–1650.

Her brother, Gustav Skytte, did not manage to escape; he was arrested, put on trial for piracy, judged guilty as charged and executed in April 1663.

Being a married woman and therefore a minor in contemporary law, Christina Anna was not personally prosecuted, but her spouse Gustaf Drake was charged in his absence and sentenced to confiscation of his property.

Gustav Skytte was featured by Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) in the 1857 novel The Freebooter of the Baltic (Fribytaren på Östersjön Stockholm: Albert Bonniers förlag).