Swedish East India Company
Martina von Schwerin was the daughter of the director of the Swedish East India Company, Martin Törngren and Eva Lovisa Svartlock, and married in 1805 to the courtier Baron Verner Gottlob von Schwerin. She had a daughter by the same name, Martina von Schwerin (1809–1839), who became a writer. Her marriage was arranged and unhappy, and she is described as patiently suffering.