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Armegot Printz
Armegot Printz Papegoja | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1625 |
| Died | 1695 (aged 69–70) |
Armegot Printz (1625–1695) was a Swedish noble.
She was the daughter of Johan Björnsson Printz, governor of New Sweden, and she married her father's successor, governor Johan Papegoja. She is the most well documented and known woman of New Sweden. [1]
Life
Armegot Printz was born in Bottnaryd, Småland, Sweden.
She was the daughter of the Swedish noble Johan Printz, colonel lieutenant of the Västgöta cavalry, and the German Elisabet Bock.
Armegott printz biography
She, as well as her mother and siblings, accompanied her father to Germany during his participation in the Thirty Years' War in the army of Gustav II Adolf of Sweden. In 1642, after her father's appointment as governor of the Swedish colony New Sweden in America, she followed her father to America in the company of her siblings and stepmother, where they arrived in February 1643.
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New Sweden
In New Sweden,