Ludvig Vilhelm August Douglas, Count of

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a city in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen. Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and bec ...

, Gondelsheim, Skenninge and Stjernorp, Lord of Langenstein and Stjernorp castles (24 November 1849 - 20 July 1916), was a conservative Swedish politician and official. He was a direct patrilineal descendant of Field Marshal Robert Douglas. Ludvig Douglas was born at Zürich, Switzerland. His parents were Count Carl Israel

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(1824-1898), first count of the Douglas family in the nobility of

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(since 1848) as Count of Mühlhausen, and his wife Countess Louise von Gondelsheim and Langenstein (1825-1900), herself a daughter of the morganatic marriage of

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and Katharina Werner. Through his mother, he was a second cousin of

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, wife of King Gustaf V of Sweden. He received the fideicommiss of Muhlhausen and the castle of Langenstein as his share of the family inheritance and reclaimed in c1875 his ancestral castle of Stjernorp in Sweden, which had been lost to his family after a fire in 1789. He ultimately succeeded his childless elder brother as head of the comital House of Douglas. Douglas was a

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and solidly oriented towards Germany. From 1895 to 1899, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden. He resigned because he refused to accept that

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( then in union with Sweden) would have their flag without the mark of the union, i.e. he opposed the so-called pure flag. He also held the position of ''

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(Marshal of the Realm)'' (1911-1916), Landshövding (governor) of

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(1893-1895), and Landshövding (governor) of

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(1901-1912). Douglas worked for the Norrlander farmers' party against the forest products companies, they demanded protective legislation in field of wood market. Count Ludvig died at

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, and is buried at the Douglas family graveyard in Vreta monastic church, Sweden. His wife was Countess Anna Louise Ehrensvärd, daughter of Count

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, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (1885-1889), and sister of Count

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, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (1911-1914). The Swedish branch of the Counts Douglas, to which Ludvig belonged, was the main surviving lineage of the family until Ludvig's sons and grandsons created several new branches (which spread over both Sweden and Germany. Lines descended from Ludvig Douglas include: * Counts von Douglas-Langenstein, descendants of Robert, eldest son of Ludvig. They still hold

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, Germany. Robert's second (and childless) wife was

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, dowager queen of Portugal. ** Counts Douglas, Barons von Reischach, descendants of a grandson of Robert von Douglas-Langenstein ** Counts Douglas-Gerstorp, the branch (settled in Sweden) descending from the youngest son of Robert von Douglas-Langenstein * Counts Douglas-Stjernorp, the branch descending from the Swedish general Archibald Douglas-Stjernorp, second son of Ludvig. This branch resides at Stjärnorp Castle and

Rydboholm Castle Rydboholm Castle (''Rydboholms slott'') is a castle located near the village of Rydbo in Österåker Municipality, Stockholm County, Uppland, Sweden. Building The castle dates back to the medieval period. The castle, with the three interconn ...

. Archibald, through his eldest son, Carl Ludvig, is the grandfather of financier Count

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and his sisters, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria and

Rosita Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough Dagmar Rosita Astrid Libertas, Duchess of Marlborough (née Douglas, sometimes Spencer-Churchill; born 26 September 1943, Madrid), is a British artist of Swedish and German descent. She was the third wife of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of ...

. * Counts Douglas-Kolfall, the branch descending from Oscar, the youngest son of Ludvig.

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Ludvig Douglas Ludvig Vilhelm August Douglas, Count of Mühlhausen, Gondelsheim, Skenninge and Stjernorp, Lord of Langenstein and Stjernorp castles (24 November 1849 - 20 July 1916), was a conservative Swedish politician and official. He was a direct patrilinea ...

Swedish people of Scottish descent Marshals of the Realm Swedish Ministers for Foreign Affairs Governors of Uppsala County 19th-century Swedish politicians Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star Grand Crosses of the Order of Vasa Knights of the Order of Charles XIII Grand Crosses of the Order of the Dannebrog