Gripsholm Castle
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Gripsholm Castle is a castle in Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden. It is located by Lake Mälaren in south central Sweden, in the municipality of Strängnäs, about 60 km west of Stockholm. Since Gustav I
Water view of the castle
Catherine Jagiellon and her son Sigismund in Gripsholm prison (National Museum, Warsaw).
Gustav III's Theatre.
Front view of the castle
Catherine Jagiellon
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Catherine Jagiellon was a princess of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Queen of Sweden from 1569 as the wife of King John III. Catherine had significant influence over state affairs during the r
Gripsholm Castle
…the Dacke War, for example, the royal children were housed there. Between 1563 and 1567, King Eric XIV imprisoned his brother John and his consort Catherine Jagiellon in the castle. John's son Sigismund III Vasa, later the King of Poland and Sweden, was born in the castle on June 20, 1566. When Eric XIV was deposed…
Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Younger (c. 1556)
Portrait of Catherine and John's daughter Isabella Vasa (1564–1566), attributed to Domenicus Verwilt. The portrait is today at Wawel Castle. It is thought to have been a gift to Catherine's sister Anna Jagiellon.
Catherine's grave monument over John's family crypt in Uppsala Cathedral