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See also:KONIGSMARK, MARIA See also:AURORA, COUNTESS OF (1662–1728) , See also:mistress of See also:Augustus the Strong, elector of See also:Saxony and 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 of See also:Poland, belonged to a See also:noble See also:Swedish See also:family, and was See also:born on the 8th of May 1662. Having passed some years at See also:Hamburg, where she attracted See also:attention both by her beauty and her talents, Aurora went in 1694 to See also:Dresden to make inquiries about her See also:brother Philipp Christoph, See also:count of Konigsmark, who had suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from See also:Hanover. Here she was noticed by Augustus, who made her his mistress; and in See also:October 1696 she gave See also:birth to a son See also:Maurice, afterwards the famous See also:marshal de See also:Saxe. The elector however quickly tired of Aurora, who then spent her See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in efforts to secure the position of See also:abbess of Quedlinburg, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which carried with it the dignity of a princess of the See also:Empire, and to recover the lost See also:inheritance of her family in See also:Sweden. She was made coadjutor abbess and See also:lady-See also:provost (Propstin) of Quedlinburg, but lived mainly in See also:Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg. In 1702 she went on a See also:diplomatic errand to See also:Charles XII. of Sweden on behalf of Augustus, but her adventurous See also:journey ended in failure. The countess, who was described by See also:Voltaire as " the most famous woman of two centuries," died at Quedlinburg on the 16th of See also:February 1728.
See F. See also:Cramer, Denkwiirdigkeiten der Grafen M. A. Konigsmark (See also:Leipzig, 1836) ; and Biographische Nachrichten von der Grafen M. A. Konigsmark (Quedlinburg, 1833) ; W. F. Palmblad, Aurora Konigsmark and ihre Verwandte (Leipzig, 1848–1853); C. L. de See also:Pollnitz, La Saxe galante (See also:Amsterdam, 1734) ; and O. J. B. von Corvin-Wiersbitzki, Maria Aurora, Grafen von Konigsmark (See also:Rudolstadt, 1902).
End of Article: KONIGSMARK, MARIA AURORA, COUNTESS OF (1662–1728)
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