 She married the vice president of Göta Hovrätt, the Scanian noble Christian Barnekow (1626–66) in 1660, the Danish chancellor count Christoffer Parsberg (1632–71) in 1669 and the chancellor Knud Thott (1639–1702) in 1682.Brita Scheel made herself much talked about by her contemporaries.In 1659, at her father's funeral in Copenhagen, Brita Scheel took possession of the document where the Danish nobility gave its consent to the Danish absolutism and turned it over to the Swedish Royal House despite demands from the Danish royal House to have it back.