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 Österbotten and they had a daughter called Hillevi. It would appear she had another daughter called Maria (see below).
Vendela Skytte died of plague in Stralsund aged 21 years old in August 1629, and was buried in Uppsala cathedral in the Skytte family tomb.
According to Maria Neave's letter of donation dated 16 May 1647 she left a stone house she had built on Västerlånggatan in Stockholm to her granddaughter (presumably Vendala's daughter?).
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