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'Philip Christoph von Königsmarck' or 'Philipp Christoph Königsmarck', (4 March 1665^[1] – 2 July 1694) Great Mysteries of the Past, , , , Reader's Digest, 1991, was a Swedish count^[2] and soldier. He was the lover of Sophia, Princess of Zelle, the wife of George I of Great Britain. George I Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
On the morning of July 2, 1694, after a meeting with Sophia, he disappeared and his body was never found. He was probably murdered at the instigation of George I, who paid a courtier a large sum of money to do so. It is most likely his body was dumped in a river.
Königsmarck was grandson to the Swedish Field Marshal Hans Christoff von Königsmarck and nephew to the Swedish Field Marshal Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck. His sister Aurora von Königsmarck was later mistress to August II of Poland, with whom she had the son Maurice de Saxe, the brilliant French military commander. His brother [CHarles John Konigsmarck] {Carl Johan Konigsmarck} is allaged to have hired three assassians in the death February 12, 1681 of Thomas Tynn, Esquire-husband of a heiress Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset whom Konigsmarck had been wooing. The assassians were hanged on March 10, 1682. The "Count" was aquitted.
Most of the letters between Königsmarck and Sophia were published by W.H. Wilkins, "The love of an uncrowned queen" (2 parts, 1900).

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1. Today in History » March 4 in history
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