the wedding of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1620. She has been given a charitable reputation because she gave a safe haven to many female relations to the exiled loyalists of Sigismund, and because she often acted as a channel of the local peasantry and the royal house. Upon her death in 1621 at 86 years of age, it was said that: "The poor have lost a friend, the orphans their mother". She was buried in Uppsala Cathedral, but without a monument of her own. Notes References Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906), Katarina Stenbock. Lars Ericson: Johan III (John III) (Swedish) Lars-Olof Larsson: Gustav Vasa - Landsfader eller tyrann? (Gustav Vasa - Father of a country or a tyrant?) (Prisma) (Swedish) Wilhelmina Stålberg, P. G. Berg : Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (Notes of Swedish women) (in Swedish) Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen (2010). Vasadöttrarna (utgåva 2). Falun: Historiska Media. Malin Grundberg: Ceremoniernas makt: maktöverföring och genus i vasatidens kungliga ceremonier Tegenborg Falkdalen, Karin, Vasadrottningen: en biografi över Katarina Stenbock 1535-1621 [The Vasa Queen: A biography of Catherine Stenbock, 1535-1621], Historiska media, Lund, 2015 Further reading External links |- 1535 births 1621 deaths People from Tranemo Municipality 16th-century Swedish nobility Catherine 1552 Burials at Uppsala Cathedral 16th-century Swedish women 17th-century Swedish women Swedish ironmasters People of the War against Sigismund 16th-century Swedish landowners 16th-century women landowners 17th-century Swedish landowners 17th-century women landowners 17th-century ironmasters