Elizabeth Carlsdotter Gyllenhielm (Swedish: ''Elisabet''; 1622-1682), was the daughter of the Swedish prince

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, in his

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with the noble

Elizabeth Ribbing Elizabeth Ribbing (Swedish: ''Elisabet''; 1 January 1596 at Fästered, Finnekumla – 24 April 1662), was a Swedish noblewoman and lady-in-waiting. She was the secret morganatic spouse of Prince Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland. Biography ...

. Elizabeth Carlsdotter was

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after the death of her father, and it was not until after his death that the marriage of her parents was revealed. Though legitimate, she was granted the name Gyllenhielm, a name previously often granted to illegitimate children of royalty: she herself, however, referred to herself only by her patronymic Elizabeth Carlsdotter. She was raised at the court of her paternal grandmother, Queen dowager Christina. Prior to her marriage, she served as maid of honor to Queen dowager Maria Eleonora and to her cousin, the reigning

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. She married the noble Axel Turesson

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in 1645. Between 1654 and 1660, she served as

överhovmästarinna Court Mistress ( da, hofmesterinde; nl, hofmeesteres; german: Hofmeisterin; no, hoffmesterinne; sv, hovmästarinna) or Chief Court Mistress ( da, Overhofmesterinde; ('grand mistress'); ; no, overhoffmesterinne; sv, överhovmästarinna; russia ...

to the Queen

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. In 1660, she married the noble and courtier Balthasar Marschalck. She had one son in her first marriage, who died childless.

References

* Elisabet Carlsdotter (Gyllenhielm) i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864) * Elisabet Carlsdotter (Gyllenhielm) i Herman Hofberg, Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (andra upplagan, 1906) * Magdalena Ribbing: Ätten Ribbing, 700 år i Sveriges historia * Lars Ericson: Johan III
Gyllenhielm, släktnamn, urn:sbl:13374, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, hämtad 2015-02-16.
* http://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Vasa {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyllenhielm, Elizabeth 1622 births 1682 deaths Swedish maids of honour 17th-century Swedish women Mistresses of the Robes (Sweden) People of the Swedish Empire 17th-century Swedish nobility