Christina, Queen of Sweden | Letter signed, to Count Arvid Wittenbrg, 7 May 1653

Christina, Queen of Sweden

Letter signed (1626-1689) as Queen, to Count Arvid Wittenberg, 7 May 1653

in Swedish, acknowledging that the Crown owes Wittenberg the sum of 30,000 riksdaler, and stating that the debt will be repaid over the three years 1654-1656, at 10,000 riksdaler capital each year plus interest at 10%.

1 page, folio, integral blank, countersignatures, papered red royal seal, Stockholm, 7 May 1653

Christina abdicated the following year, adopted Catholicism and lived thereafter in Rome. Her life was the subject of several nineteenth-century operas and the celebrated 1933 film Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, directed by Rouben Mamoulian.