SKYTTE, WENDELA [SSNE 6282]
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Vendela Skytte was the daughter of Johan Skytte [SSNE 4754] and his Scottish wife Mary Neave [SSNE 6272] and was born on 8 December 1608. Her brothers were Bengt [SSNE 4842], Jakob [SSNE 4920] and Johan [SSNE 6280]. Her sisters were Anna [SSNE 2775], Maria [SSNE 7269], and Heldina.
Vendla was apparently a very learned woman. She mastered Latin, French and German. She maintained a learned correspondence with Catharina Bureus, herself a learned woman (daughter of the royal librarian). At the age of 18 on 30 May 1626 she married Hans Kyle of Frotuna, who became a governor in Osterbotten and they had a dughter called Hillevi. Vendela died of plague in Stralsund aged 21 years old in August 1629. Her mother left a stone house she had built on Västerlånggatan in Stockholm to her husband in a will dated Stockholm 16 May 1647. Vendela was buried in Uppsala cathedral in the Skytte family tomb.
Sources:
Swedish Riksarkiv, Depositio Skytteana A:5, E5412; C. Gartz, "Äreminne, öfver Riks-Rådet Johan Skytte, Friherre til Duderhoff, Herre til Grönsjö och Elfvesjö; Hvilket vunnit accessit den 20 Marii 1786", Svenska Vitterhets-Academiens Handlingar, del 5, (Stockholm, 1788), pp.116-7; G. Elgenstierna, Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor, VII, p.319; Anteckningar om Svenska Qvinnor, (Stockholm, 1864), pp341-2. Female.
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- SWEDEN, STRALSUND (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
- Departed 1629-08-18
- Capacity MISC, purpose MISC