Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (Hamburg 1661 - Stockholm 1708), was a Swedish writer, poet, lady-in-waiting and noble.

Daughter of Pontus Fredrik De la Gardie and Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck. She received a cultivated education with her sister Ebba Maria and her cousins Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck and Maria Aurora of Königsmarck; her sister became an appreciated poet and singer at court. Johanna became lady-in-waiting and, as her sister, a favourite of the queen, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, and was also a friend of the queen dowager, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp. She was married to her cousin count Erik Gustaf Stenbock in 1691 and lived with him in England until 1697, were she became popular at the English court and queen Mary II of England.

She wrote the French poem Portrait d’Ismène for Ulrika Eleonora, and the German language psalm Weich, Falsche Welt. She benefitted poet and writers and are remembered as the benefactor and teacher of the poet and politician Samuel Triewald.

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