Margareta Slots

Margareta Slots was the daughter of the Dutch merchant Abraham Cabiljau and Maria van Leest.

At the time she was married to the Dutch military engineer Andries Sessandes,[2] who fell in battle at Pskov soon after (October 1615).

Slots then married the paper maker Arendt Slots, who died a few years later, and then the petardist[3] and "Feuerwerker" (artillerist and gunpowder maker) Jacob Trello (died 1632),[2] and was given the estate Benhamra in Uppland, where she lived with her husbands, often asking for favours from the king.

The bailiff Jacob Galle threatened her with confiscation after she had prevented her tenants to take part in royal construction work.

[4] Galle died of the injuries and she was accused for his murder, but no legal action against her is mentioned.