This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Ingela Gathenhielm" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) | Ingela Olofsdotter Gathenhielm née Hammar (11 September 1692 – 29 April 1729), was a Swedish shipowner and privateer in service of King Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War.[1] ## Biography[edit] Ingela Gathenhielm was born in Onsala as the daughter of the shipowner Olof Hammar and Gunilla Mårtensdotter. In 1711, Ingela married Lars Gathenhielm. Ingela and Lars lived on adjacent farms as children and met at a young age. They had five children together, of which only one, the son Anders (1714–1768), survived to adulthood. After their wedding, they settled in Gothenburg. ### Privateering[edit] The couple had both grown up in families involved in the privateering activity in Onsala.[1] In 1710, Lars Gathenhielm was granted royal permission to attack and plunder ships from all nations belonging to the enemy of Sweden during the Great Nordic War. Reportedly, in practice he did in fact attack ships from non-enemy nations as well, making the activity illegal piracy. The spoils were sold in Dunkerque (or Dunkirk) in northern France. Lars made a fortune, inducted to the Gothenburg city guild in 1715 and ennobled, alongside his brother Christian, for his service to the crown. Many stories and legends have been told about Ingela Gathenhielm. She's reported to have been deeply involved in the seafarings of Lars as his business companion, adviser, and the mastermind behind many of his affairs. She was also a privateer herself, which wasn't odd in 18th-century Sweden, where married women were expected to assist their husband's in business. What's confirmed is that when Lars died in 1718, Ingela inherited his royal privateering permit and continued to manage his fleet (and his alleged pirate empire).[1] This wouldn't have been regarded as controversial for the standards of that time, when widows by law inherited the business of their late spouse, even if the business, in this case, was unconventional; her contemporary Margareta von Ascheberg also inherited a war office in the same war. She was called the Kapardrottningen ('Privateering Queen'). The Swedish privateering licenses were retracted after the peace treaty between Denmark in 1720 and Russia in 1721. After the Peace, Ingela issued several lengthy lawsuits against the Crown for monetary compensation for the costs she had as a privateer in the service of the crown, which did in fact give her military status of a kind; this continued until after her death and was inherited by her second spouse.[1] ### Later life[edit] Aside from her activity as a privateer, Ingela managed several other businesses in Gothenburg. She inherited the ropewalk factory and the shipping business from her spouse. She expanded it by founding many other businesses such as a bakery, forge, distillery and Sailmaker factory. Becoming successful in these businesses, particularly the ropewalk factory, which reportedly equipped a large part of the ships of Gothenburg.[1] In 1722, Ingela married the colonel lieutenant Isak Browald. In 1729, she was buried alongside her first husband in Onsala, Sweden, beneath the tower of the church. ## Legacy[edit] A street in Västra Frölunda is named after her: Ingela Gathenhielms gata ('Ingela Gathenhielm Street'). ## References[edit] 1. ^ a b c d e Larsson, Lisbeth, Hundrade och en Göteborgskvinnor, Göteborg, 2018 * https://web.archive.org/web/20100812142016/http://www.ericsonwolke.se/las_mer_lasse_i_gatan.htm * http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=97619594-9250-4e8b-bd79-18262a683f31 * Göteborg - handbok för resande, Octavia Carlén 1869 s.125-130 * Berättelser ur Göteborgs Historia under envåldstiden, H.Fröding 1922 s.300-315 * Majornas Kyrkokrönika, Per Pehrsson 1926 * Det forna Majorna, Axel Rosén 1940 * Kronologiska anteckningar om viktigare händelser i Göteborg 1619–1982, Göteborgs Hembygdsförbund 1982 * Göteborg berättar, Bengt A. Öhnander 1991 * Göteborgs gatunamn, Greta Baum 2001 * Lasse i Gatan - Kaparkriget och det svenska stormaktsväldets fall, Militärhistoriker Lars Ericson/Historiska Media 1997 s.77-87 ## Further reading[edit] * Ingela Gathenhielm at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon * v * t * e Piracy Periods| * Ancient Mediterranean * Golden Age * 21st century Types of pirate| * Albanian piracy * Anglo-Turkish piracy * Baltic Slavic pirates * Barbary pirates (corsairs) * Brethren of the Coast * Buccaneers * Cilician pirates * Child pirate * Cossack pirates * Fillibusters * French corsairs * Jewish pirates * Moro pirates * Narentines * Privateers * Confederate privateer * River pirate * Sea Beggars * Sea Dogs * Sindhi corsairs * Timber pirate * Ushkuyniks * Uskoks * Vikings * Victual Brothers * Wokou Areas| | Atlantic World| * Caribbean * British Virgin Islands * Spanish Main * Lake Nicaragua * Venezuela * Gulf of Guinea | Indian Ocean| * Horn of Africa * Somali Coast * Indonesia * Persian Gulf * Strait of Malacca * Nosy Boraha Other waters| * Barbary Coast * Falcon Lake * South China Coast * Sulu Sea Pirate havens and bases| * Barataria Bay * Île Sainte-Marie * Libertatia * Lundy * Mamora * Port Royal * Republic of Pirates * Republic of Salé * Saint Augustin * Saint-Malo * Tortuga Major figures| | Pirates| * Abduwali Muse * Abshir Boyah * Adam Baldridge * Abraham Samuel * Alfhild * Albert W. 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