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Stina Piper

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Died
  
1800, Stockholm, Sweden

Children
  
Magnus Fredrik Brahe

Parents
  
Carl Fredrik Piper

Grandparent
  
Carl Piper

Stina Piper

Grandchildren
  
Magnus Brahe, Ebba Eleonora Brahe, Nils Fredrik Brahe

Similar
  
Carl Fredrik Piper, Magnus Brahe, Adolf Ludvig Piper, Carl Piper

Christina Charlotta (Stina) Piper, (17 January 1734 - 1800) was a Swedish freight manager and countess. She was the daughter of Carl Fredrik Piper and Ulrika Christina Mörner af Morlanda. In 1754 she married Erik Brahe, who was executed in 1756 for participating in a state coup. Piper, who was pregnant at the time of her husband's execution, tried several times to get a more lenient sentence for her husband.

Piper had two children with Brahe: Ulrika Juliana and Magnus Fredrik Brahe. As a widow, Piper took care of her son and step-sons' inheritance. In 1773 she married Ulrik Scheffer, a political opponent to Erik Brahe. As the wife of Scheffer, Piper played a big role in the Swedish royal court's etiquette and ceremonial activities. In 1783 the couple retired back to the Stora Ek estate Scheffer died in 1799, after which Piper returned to Stockholm were she died a year later.

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Stina Piper Wikipedia