Margareta Slots or Margareta Cabiljau (died 1669) was the royal mistress of king

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and the mother of his illegitimate son Gustav of Vasaborg. Margareta Slots was the daughter of the Dutch merchant Abraham Cabiljau and Maria van Leest. During the

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Slots met Gustav at the siege of

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in 1615. At the time she was married to the Dutch

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Andries Sessandes, who fell in battle at Pskov soon after (October 1615). In 1616, she and Gustav had a son, Gustav Gustavson; Gustav acknowledged his son and granted him an allowance. Slots then married the

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maker Arendt Slots, who died a few years later, and then the

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maker) Jacob Trello (died 1632), and was given the estate Benhamra in

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, where she lived with her husbands, often asking for favours from the king. In 1625, she was involved in an incident. The

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Jacob Galle threatened her with confiscation after she had prevented her

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to take part in royal construction work. As a response she visited Galle, asked if he had not heard of the privileges granted her by the monarch, and struck him with her stick, after which Galle was beaten by her servants.Göte Göransson: Gihl Dahlström: Gustav II Adolf och hans folk, Bra böcker, Stockholm 1994. Galle died of the injuries and she was accused for his murder, but no legal action against her is mentioned. Reportedly, she met Gustav Adolph only once, in 1630, after their relationship had ended.

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