Anna Vasa of Sweden (also Anne, 1568 – 1625). Swedish princess heavily involved in the politics of that country and of Poland.
She was starosta of Brodnica and Golub. The youngest child of King John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagiellon, she was close to her brother Sigismund Vasa, King of Poland (1587–1632) and King of Sweden (1592–99). Raised a Catholic, Anna converted to Lutheranism in 1584.
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| Portrait by Lavinia Fontana |
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| Portrait by Lavinia Fontana |
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