Stormor i Dalom
Margareta Hansdotter, also called Säbråzynthia (1594–1657), was a Swedish vicar's wife famous in history by the name Stormor i Dalom (The Great Mother of Dalom). She is known as the matriarch of a large number of Swedish families: Arborelius, Floderus, Geijer, Holmgren, Key, Munktell, Staaff, Stridsberg, Troilius, von Troil and Trygger. She was given the name Stormor i Dalom during her own lifetime because of her charitable nature toward the poor, as well as for her many children.
Stormor i Dalom was born to Johannes Laurentii, vicar of Säbrå parish in Ångermanland, and thereby the cousin of the mathematician Andreas Bureus and the sister of bishop Jacobus Johannis Zebrozynthius. In 1610, she married Elof Terserus (1554-1617), vicar of Leksand, and in 1618, she married the successor of her late spouse, Uno Troilus (1586-1654), through Widow Conservation.
References
- Munktell: Västerås Stifts Herdaminne
- Lilla Focus. Focus Uppslagsböcker AB, Stockholm. ISBN 91-20-04938-2 Lund, 1979 [Lilla Focus Encyclopedia]