Conrad or Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck (24 March 1634 – 31 October 1673) was a
Dutch-
Swedish
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military leader.
He was the son of
Hans Christoff von Königsmarck and Agathe von Leesten and the brother of
Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck
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and
Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck.
Career
Königsmarck received an education despite the war and later joined the Swedish army. He took part in the bloody battle near Warsaw in 1656. In 1658 under
Charles X command during the crossing over the frozen Great Belt Bridge to
Funen he was caught by the Danes and was left free only after the Peace of
Roskilde. In 1663 after the death of his father he became a vice-governor of the
Duchy
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There once exis ...
of
Bremen-Verden and commander of
Stade
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.
He served the
stadthouder
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William III of Orange in
Bodegraven during the
Rampjaar.
[Conrad Christoffel graaf van Königsmarck]
in the NNBW When 10,000 French troops under the command of
François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg arrived over the frozen ice of the
Hollandic Water Line from
Woerden on 27 December 1672, he retreated to
Leiden. There the councilman Cornelis Hop and others kept the gates closed and ordered him back to
Alphen aan de Rijn
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in order to defend the Water Line at
Gouwsluis.
[ His retreat enabled the Duke of Luxembourg to murder all at Bodegraven and Zwammerdam and he prepared to make an attack on The Hague. A sudden thaw forced them back to Woerden however, but Königsmarck was seen as a coward.][
Königsmarck was killed in the Siege of Bonn by an accidental cannon shot from friendly side on 10 October 1673 at the age of 39.][
In a year his body was reburied in Stade. He was known for his charitable gifts, as for example a rebuilding of burnt church in Stade in 1659.
]
Personal life
He married Countess Maria Christina von Wrangel, the daughter of Count Hermann von Wrangel
Herman Wrangel (born 1584/1587 – 10 December 1643) was a Swedish military officer and politician of Baltic German extraction.
Biography
Herman von Wrangel was born in Livonia. He came to Sweden around 1608. In 1612, he participated in the ...
and their children were:
* Karl Johann von Königsmarck
* Maria Aurora von Königsmarck[Kenneth Meyer Setton, ''Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century'' (1991), p. 296 note 3]
Google Books
* Amalia Wilhelmina von Königsmarck
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*Amalia (1914 film), ''Amalia'' (191 ...
* Philip Christoph von Königsmarck
References
1634 births
1673 deaths
Swedish military personnel
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