Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa, also called Margareta Vasa and Margareta of Hoya, was a Swedish noblewoman, sister of king Gustav I of Sweden.
Background
Margareta was born to Erik Johansson Vasa and Cecilia Månsdotter. Margareta, as well as her mother, her sisters and her grandmother, were among the women taken prisoner to Denmark with the former regent, her aunt Christina Gyllenstierna, and was impriosoned in the feared Blue Tower in Copenhagen.
Career
She had also inherited the estate Rydboholm Castle after her father. In 1528, she visited Germany and Lübeck. After he return to Sweden in April 1529, she and Wulf Gyl were captured by mayor Nils Arvidsson of Jönköping.
This incident was the beginning of the Westrogothian rebellion of the nobility against the ongoing Swedish Reformation.
The queen, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, is said to have slandered the king before them. In 1534, they broke with the king and left for Germany.
The king wrote several letters and asked her to return. She died in Tallinn in Estonia.
Joakim Brahe (died 1520 in the Stockholm Bloodbath)
Per Brahe (1520–1590)
John VII of Hoya (died 1535 in the Count"s Feud on Funen, Denmark)
John (1529–1574), bishop of Osnabrück.
Jobst, co-adjutor in Cologne. He was captured by Franz von Halle and died in prison.