Sigbrit Willoms
Danish Government minister
Sigbrit Willoms (also spelled Villoms or Villums), (possible date of death 1532), was a Danish-Norwegian politician from Amsterdam, mother to the mistress of King Christian II of Denmark, Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, and advisor and de facto minister of finance for the king between 1519 and 1523. She was never given an official position, but was addressed by the title Mother Sigbrit (Danish: Mor Sigbrit).
Early life and family
Sigbrit Willoms was born into a merchant family from Amsterdam. She was educated in counting, reading and writing in Low German, the business language of Northern Europe. She was also tutored in contemporary herbal medicine. One of her two brothers, Dionysius Villoms, was similarly trained and was an apothecary.
Until the 15th century, German merchants from the Hanseatic States had dominated trade in the Nordic region, but in the mid 1400s, Dutch merchants, including her family, entered into competition with the Germans. At an unknown date, she moved to Bergen, Norway, an important trading center. She is known to have lived there in 1507 along with her brothers and daughter.
She is believed to have had two children.
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