Background
Ribbing was the daughter of the nobles Seved Svensson Ribbing and Anna Gyllenstierna.
Ribbing was the daughter of the nobles Seved Svensson Ribbing and Anna Gyllenstierna.
She was the secret morganatic spouse of Prince Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland. She was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Dowager Christina of Holstein-Gottorp. The wedding was kept secret because the Queen Dowager had forbidden the match, and was witnessed by Ribbing"s sister Christina Ribbing.
Because the marriage was kept secret, Ribbing was forced to defy her brother"s wish that she marry her relative, Knut Liliehöök (1603–1664).
In 1622, she became a widow. She was later married to Knut Liliehöök, governor of Turku.
Her daughter, Elisabet Carlsdotter Gyllenhielm (1622–1682), was taken into the household of the Queen Dowager: she was married to the nobles Axel Turesson Natt och Dag (1645) and Baltasar Marskalk and lady-in-waiting to Queens Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.