Ingela Gathenhielm

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Ingela Olofsdotter Gathenhielm, née Hammar, (11 September 1692-29 April 1729), was a Swedish Privateer in service of king Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War.

[edit] Biography

Ingela was from 1711 married to the famous Privateer and Pirate Lars Gathenhielm, who in 1710 had gotten by the king permission to attack and plunder ships from enemy nations on the Baltic Sea- and also, as it was said, often attacked other ships as well- and sold the valuables of the ship in Dunkerque, making a fortune, and was ennobled in 1715.

Ingela had met Lars when they where children, as the farms of their parents where next to each other, they had five children, and she is believed to have been not only his wife but also his companion in his professional life, and the brain behind a lot of his plans as a privateer and pirate. They both ran the affairs from their base in Gothenburg. When her husband died in 1718, Ingela took over his Privateering (and his alleged Pirate empire), continued it's business and also expanded it during the remaining war, called the shipping-queen.

The Swedish privateering ended after the peace treaty with Denmark in 1720 and Russia in 1721. Ingela married the lieutenant Isak Browald in 1722 and was in 1729 buried with her first husband in Onsala.

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