Karin Hansdotter was the daughter of the Lutheran priest Hans Klasson Kokkemaster, a former monk of the Dominican Order, and his wife Ingeborg Akesdotter, a former nun and the illegitimate daughter of count Ake Hansson Tott.
11 Facts About Karin Hansdotter
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Karin Hansdotter's father left monastic life after the Swedish Reformation and became a Lutheran priest in Stockholm, but lost his office because of adultery.
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Karin Hansdotter was given a position in the household of the queen dowager Catherine Stenbock, where she met Prince John.
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In 1555, Prince John was given his own household, and Karin left her position with the queen dowager and became the official kept mistress of John with the approval of her guardian.
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Karin Hansdotter was referred to as "Our Gracious Lady" and given her own household with her own maids and brought her relatives and friends to her household.
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Karin Hansdotter was granted a great dowry by John and retired to the manor of her new spouse, Vik in Birkala.
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Karin Hansdotter's husband was consequently given an office and her son named governor of Abo Castle, and her children with John III where ennobled in 1577 and her daughter Sofia became a lady-in-waiting of Princess Elizabeth of Sweden.
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From 1580, due to the office of her spouse and son, Karin Hansdotter was able to move back into Abo Castle and become its hostess and the lady of her own court there.
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Karin Hansdotter had custody of her grandchildren by her daughter Sofia after Sofia's death in 1585 until they were taken to Sweden in 1589.
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When was widowed in 1591, Karin Hansdotter retired to her estate, where she was the neighbor of the deposed queen Karin Hansdotter Mansdotter, who lived in the estate next to hers.
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Karin Hansdotter died in 1596 during the great Finnish peasant rebellion, and died shortly before the rebels reached and sacked her estate.