Per Brahe the Elder
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Per Brahe the Elder (1520–1590) was a Swedish statesman.
Brahe was the son of Joakim Brahe (died 1520 in the
Brahe was among the first members of the
He married Beata Stenbock (1533–1583), daughter of Gustaf Olofsson Stenbock and Brita Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud, and elder sister of Gustav Vasa's third wife, Katarina Stenbock. Brahe's mother-in-law was the daughter of Erik Abrahamsson Leijonhufvud and Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa, the mother of Gustav Vasa's second wife, Margaret Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud. (Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa was herself a second cousin of Gustav Vasa.)
Brahe was the father of Erik Brahe (1552–1614), Gustaf Brahe (1558–1615), Margareta Brahe (1559–1638), Magnus Brahe (1564–1633), Sigrid Brahe and Abraham Brahe (1569–1630), and the grandfather of Per Brahe the Younger (1602–1680), Ebba Brahe and Margareta Brahe.
References
- Starbäck; Carl Georg Starbäck; Per Olof Bäckström (1885). Berättelser ur svenska historien (Swedish). Beijer.
Magnus Brahe 1633.
External links
- Media related to Per Brahe the Elder at Wikimedia Commons