Note 227 — APPENDIX B CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PRINCESS SOPHIA DOROTHEA AND COUNT KÖNIGSMARCK IN THE ROYAL SECRET ARCHIVES OF STATE AT BERLIN (continued 2)

Count Magnus Stenbock, afterwards renowned as a Swedish general under Charles XII, and sympathetically remembered for his tragic death, entered the Dutch service as a volunteer in 1690. The Count de La Gardie mentioned here may be Pontus Frederick who died in 1693. Stenbock was connected by descent with the de La Gardies; a Countess Stenbock, born de La Gardie, was with Aurora von Königsmarck immediately after her brother’s death. The two Counts are mentioned as likely to come to Celle in July 1693, ap. Wilkins, p. 288.