Swedish-German princess. She was a Princess of Sweden of the Vasa Dynasty, the most famous of the five daughters of King Gustav I and Queen Margaret. In German she was called Cäcilie. She has been widely known for a courtship scandal in connection with a sister's wedding, and also for a lengthy stay in England, where her first child was born, as invited there by Queen Elizabeth I. Considered the most attractive of the Vasa princesses, she became Margravine consort of Baden-Rodemachern when she married Margrave Christopher II in 1564. Five years earlier she went along for their honeymoon trip when her oldest sister was married, and at Vadstena Castle her new brother-in-law was found in her bedroom after having climbed in through a window. Her old father Gustav I threw several violent fits over the scandalously public way the indiscretion had been handled, stopped the honeymoon, jailed participants and subjected her to confiscation of her jewelry and to corporal punishment by his own hand. When she eventually was married herself, she and her husband went to England. Her half-brother Eric was now the Swedish king and he authorized her officially to negotiate with the English queen regnant not only about a marriage to him but also for a piracy treaty. Eventually leaving England after extravagant living, she also had to get out of her husband's country due to religious persecution and they landed back in Sweden. There she was given considerable holdings and property and called herself Countess of Arboga. In 1579 she returned widowed to Baden, intending to take charge there, but she caused another scandal by giving birth to a daughter whose father was assumed to be the Spanish ambassador. In her old age she fled again from considerable debts and was almost murdered in Luxembourg because of them in 1610.
Swedish-German princess. She was a Princess of Sweden of the Vasa Dynasty, the most famous of the five daughters of King Gustav I and Queen Margaret. In German she was called Cäcilie. She has been widely known for a courtship scandal in connection with a sister's wedding, and also for a lengthy stay in England, where her first child was born, as invited there by Queen Elizabeth I. Considered the most attractive of the Vasa princesses, she became Margravine consort of Baden-Rodemachern when she married Margrave Christopher II in 1564. Five years earlier she went along for their honeymoon trip when her oldest sister was married, and at Vadstena Castle her new brother-in-law was found in her bedroom after having climbed in through a window. Her old father Gustav I threw several violent fits over the scandalously public way the indiscretion had been handled, stopped the honeymoon, jailed participants and subjected her to confiscation of her jewelry and to corporal punishment by his own hand. When she eventually was married herself, she and her husband went to England. Her half-brother Eric was now the Swedish king and he authorized her officially to negotiate with the English queen regnant not only about a marriage to him but also for a piracy treaty. Eventually leaving England after extravagant living, she also had to get out of her husband's country due to religious persecution and they landed back in Sweden. There she was given considerable holdings and property and called herself Countess of Arboga. In 1579 she returned widowed to Baden, intending to take charge there, but she caused another scandal by giving birth to a daughter whose father was assumed to be the Spanish ambassador. In her old age she fled again from considerable debts and was almost murdered in Luxembourg because of them in 1610.
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