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Valborg Innamaa

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until the business could be taken over by a male relative or husband. Despite her remarriages, which formally placed her under the guardianship of her husbands, she kept sole control over her business until her death. She had two daughters, and her business was inherited by her grandson Bertil Innamaa.
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She was married three times more after she was widowed: to Peder Ingevadsson, Olof Karlsson and Lukas Larsson (in Finnish, Peter Ingvaldinpoika, Olavi Karls, and Luke Laurin). It was common for a widow in Sweden-Finland to continue the trade of her late spouse, but normally she did so only temporary,
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took Åbo from John in 1563, after which the Innama family's merchant ships were confiscated by king Eric. She inherited the merchant house of her late spouse and exported iron to the king. In 1571, she is listed as the richest merchant in the city of Åbo in existing tax records.
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Innamaa worked for the restoration of the ships, which was granted in 1582. She revived the business enterprise of her late spouse and transported goods from all over the
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Women in Business Families : From Past to Present
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Index

Finnish
merchant
shipowner
Åbo
Turku
Sweden
Finland
Henrik Johannes Innamaa
fi
John III of Sweden
Eric XIV of Sweden
Baltic Sea
Stockholm
Åbo
Livonian war
Turku
Kristiina Vuori
fi




"Innamaa, Valpuri Erkintytär (K noin 1602)"
ISSN
1799-4349
"A Finnish drink with a heroic past"
Valborg Eriksdotter Innamaa
Categories
16th-century Finnish people
16th-century Finnish women

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