Ingerd Ottesdotter Rømer

Ingerd Ottesdotter Rømer (c. 1475–1555), lady of Austrått, was the wealthiest landowner in sixteenth-century Norway. Heiress of the noble Rømer family, she married Nils Henriksson, who became Chancellor and High Steward of Norway; her Austrått estate made her daughters sought-after brides. Widowed in 1523, she worked through her powerful sons-in-law and opposed Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson.

Later, she sheltered a claimant calling himself Nils Sture and planned to marry her daughter Eline to him and place him on Sweden's throne. She and her family promoted the Lutheran Reformation, and she died in a shipwreck in 1555.