Anna Karlsdotter (Vinstorpa)
| Anna Karlsdotter (Vinstorpa) | |
|---|---|
| Spouse(s) | Erik Karlsson (Vasa) Erik Eriksson (Gyllenstierna) |
| Noble family | Vinstorpa |
| Father | Karl Bengtsson |
| Mother | Karin Lagesdotter Sparre |
| Died | 1552 |
Anna Karlsdotter (Vinstorpa) (died 1552), was a Swedish noble and landholder. By her daughter Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa, she was the maternal grandmother of queen Margaret Leijonhufvud and thereby great grandmother of king John III of Sweden and king Charles IX of Sweden. She is remembered as one of several possible people later identified with the famous legend of Pintorpafrun.
Anna Karlsdotter was the daughter of noble riksråd Karl Bengtsson (1454-1495) of the Vinstorpa family and Katarina "Karin" Lagesdotter Sparre (d. 1493), and sister of knight and riksråd Örjan Karlsson (d. 1500).
In 1488, she married to riksråd lord Erik Karlsson Vasa of Stäkeholm and Rumlaborg, a cousin of Erik Johansson Vasa, father of Gustav I of Sweden. She became a widow when her husband was shot in 1491 for harassing a priest. In 1492, she remarried Erik Eriksson Gyllenstierna the Younger, who was lynched in 1502 for having capitulated to the Danes at Älvsborg. She had many children, among them Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa and Margareta von Melen.
Upon the death of her childless brother, she became the last descendant of the Vinstorpa family III, and the heir of the family estates. After having been widowed a second time, she bought the manor Pinntorp in Sudermannia in 1508, and devoted the rest of her life to the management of her estates. In addition to the estates she inherited, she expanded her lands by acquired more and more land in Västergötland over a period of almost fifty years, and became a very substantial, rich and noted landowner. In 1520, for example, her son-in-law borrowed money from her to be able to lodge her daughter Ebba and their children in Västerås Abbey while he attended the coronation in Stockholm, something that saved them from the .Upon the marriage of her granddaughter Margaret Leijonhufvud to the king in 1536, she benefited as did all the relatives of Margaret and was granted land and privileges such as the right to certain taxes and fines from the king.
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