page_title: Brahe
section_title: Swedish family
hierarchical_section_title: Brahe / Swedish family
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Vapensköld för grevliga adelsätten Brahe nummer 1
context_page_description: Brahe is the name of two closely related Scanian noble families who were influential in both Danish and Swedish history.
context_section_description: Johanna Torkildsdotter from the Danish Brahe family, married Magnus Laurentsson in Sweden.
  Their son took his mother's family name Brahe, but not her family arms.
  Per Brahe was in 1561 granted the title of count by Eric XIV of Sweden, and in 1620 the family was introduced in the Swedish House of Knights (Riddarhuset) as the first counts.
  Per Brahe the Elder (1520–1590): statesman
  Erik Brahe (1552–1614): Count of Visingsborg
  Gustaf Brahe (1558–1615), riksråd of Sweden – loyal to king Sigismund – and later, Polish general
  Magnus Brahe (1564–1633): Lord High Steward of Sweden
  Ebba Brahe (1596–1674): lady-in-waiting and mistress of future King Gustavus Adolphus, wife of Jakob De la Gardie
  Abraham Brahe (1569–1630): Swedish Count
  Per Brahe the Younger (1602–1680): soldier and statesman
  Margareta Brahe (1603–1669): lady-in-waiting for Queen Maria Eleonora and Queen Christina of Sweden, consort of Gustavus Adolphus
  Nils Brahe (1604–1632): General in the Swedish army
  Nils Brahe (1633–1699): Swedish Count
  Erik Brahe (1722–1756): Marshal and Colonel
  Magnus Fredrik Brahe (1756–1826): Swedish Count
  Magnus Brahe (1790–1844): statesman and soldier
caption: Upgraded arms of the counts of the Swedish Brahe family
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