Margareta von Ascheberg as married Barnekow (1671 - 1753), was a Swedish land owner, noble

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 and acting regiment

Regiment

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 colonel

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  during the Great Northern War

Great Northern War

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Daughter of Field Marshal

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 Rutger von Ascheberg

Rutger von Ascheberg

Count Rutger von Ascheberg was a soldier, officer and civil servant in Swedish service, being appointed Lieutenant General in 1670, General in 1674, Field Marshal in 1678, Governor General of the Scanian provinces, in 1680, and Royal Councilor in 1681.-Biography:Ascheberg was born on the estate...

 and married in 1691 to count

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 and military Kjell Christopher Barnekow (d.1700). As a widow, she had the obligation to perform his task of a colonel regarding the organisation of his regiment, when it was called to serve in the Great Northern war in 1700. She equipped the regiment, appointed the officers of the regiment and sat at the inspection office of the regiment when it was sent to war from Kristianstad

Kristianstad

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During the war, she took care of the continued equipment and affairs of the regiment, exchanged letters with Charles XII of Sweden

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 about its appointments and promotions. She was called "Coloneless"; "Madame Colonel". She was also an active and successful businessperson

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 as a landowner, who expanded and developed her vast estates; she founded school

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s and hospital

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s and gave anonymous donations to the poor.