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KONIGSMARK, PHILIPP CHRISTOPH, COUNT OF (1665-1694)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 895 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KONIGSMARK, PHILIPP CHRISTOPH, COUNT OF (1665-1694) , was a member of a noble Swedish family, and is chiefly known as the lover of
Sophia
  Dorothea, wife of the
English
  king George I. then electoral prince of Hanover. Born on the 14th of
March
  1665, Konigsmark was a brother of the countess noticed above. After wandering and fighting in various parts of Europe he entered the service of Ernest
Augustus
 , elector of Hanover. Here he made the acquaintance of
Sophia
  Dorothea, and assisted her in one or two futile attempts to escape from Hanover. Regarded, rightly or wrongly, as the lover of the princess, he was seized, and disappeared from history, probably by assassination, on the 1st of July 1694. One authority states that George". was accustomed to boast about this deed; but this statement is doubted, and the Hanoverian
court
  resolutely opposed all efforts to clear up the mystery. It is not absolutely certain that Sophia Dorothea was guilty of a criminal intrigue with Konigsmark, as it is probable that the letters which purport to have passed between the pair are forgeries. The question of her guilt or innocence, however, has been and still remains a fruitful and popular subject for romance and speculation.
See Briefwechsel des Grafen Konigsmark and der Prinzessin Sophie Dorothea von Celle, edited by W. F. Palmblad (
Leipzig
 , 1847.); A. Kocher, " Die Prinzessin von Ahlden," in the Historische Zestschrift (
Munich
 , 1882); and W. H. Wilkins, The Love of an Uncrowned Queen (London, 1900).


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