Margareta Brahe (1559–1638)

Margareta Brahe (2 July 1559 – 26 April 1638) was a Swedish courtier; hovmästarinna (Mistress of the Robes) to princess Anna Vasa of Sweden, from 1591.

In 1595, Anna arranged the scandalous Wednesday Wedding between Margareta's sister Sigrid Brahe and Johan Nilsson Gyllenstierna.

The Sparre Affair was to be the final break between Anna and Duke Charles, and it involved also Margareta Brahe and her family.

[2] When Anna left Stegeborg to attend the deathbed of Queen Dowager Gunilla Bielke in 1597, Duke Charles had her household searched.

In May 1599, her spouse and her brother-in-law were executed as followers of Sigismund by Charles IX of Sweden during the Kalmar Bloodbath.