See also:COUNT OF PHILIPP CHRISTOPH See also:KONIGSMARK (1665-1694)
, was a member of a See also:noble See also:Swedish See also:family, and is chiefly known as the See also:lover of See also:Sophia Dorothea, wife of the See also:English See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:George I. then electoral See also:prince of See also:Hanover
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See also:Born on the 14th of See also:March 1665, See also:Konigsmark was a See also:brother of the countess noticed above
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After wandering and fighting in various parts of See also:Europe he entered the service of Ernest See also:Augustus, elector of Hanover
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Here he made the acquaintance of Sophia Dorothea, and assisted her in one or two futile attempts to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from Hanover
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Regarded, rightly or wrongly, as the lover of the princess, he was seized, and disappeared from See also:history, probably by assassination, on the 1st of See also:July 1694
.
One authority states that George". was accustomed to boast about this See also:deed; but this statement is doubted, and the Hanoverian See also:court resolutely opposed all efforts to clear up the See also:mystery
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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
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The question of her See also:guilt or innocence, however, has been and still remains a fruitful and popular subject for See also:romance and See also:speculation
.
See Briefwechsel See also:des Grafen Konigsmark and der Prinzessin Sophie Dorothea von See also:Celle, edited by W
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Palmblad (See also:Leipzig, 1847.); A
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Kocher, " See also:Die Prinzessin von Ahlden," in the Historische Zestschrift (See also:Munich, 1882); and W
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See also:Wilkins, The Love of an Uncrowned See also:Queen (See also:London, 1900)
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