Name Lucretia Gyllenhielm | Siblings Sigismund III Vasa | |
Nieces Anna Catherine Constance Vasa Nephews John II Casimir Vasa, Wladyslaw IV Vasa, Karol Ferdynand Vasa, Alexander Charles Vasa, John Albert Vasa Similar People Sigismund III Vasa, Catherine Jagiellon, John III of Sweden, Anna Vasa of Sweden, John II Casimir Vasa | ||
Lucretia Johansdotter Gyllenhielm (1561–1585), was the illegitimate daughter of John III of Sweden and Karin Hansdotter. She was reportedly the favorite of her father.
Lucretia Gyllenhielm and her siblings were ennobled and granted the name Gyllenhielm in 1577, though she and her sister often used only their patronymic. Lucretia was the favorite of her father. She was betrothed to the nobleman Carl Gustafsson Stenbock. When she died unmarried in 1585 at the age of 24, her father the king became distraught and issued an investigation if she had died as the result of witchcraft. Carl Gustafsson Stenbock accused the noblewoman Kerstin Ulfsax, who was rumored to have murdered her late spouse, of having bewitched Lucretia. Ulfsax was arrested, and after having failed to collect twelve female nobles as character witnesses, she was executed.