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See also:KONIGSMARK, PHILIPP CHRISTOPH, See also:COUNT OF (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. See also:Born on the 14th of See also:March 1665, Konigsmark was a See also:brother of the countess noticed above. After wandering and fighting in various parts of See also:Europe he entered the service of Ernest See also:Augustus, elector of Hanover. 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. 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. 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 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. F. Palmblad (See also:Leipzig, 1847.); A. Kocher, " See also:Die Prinzessin von Ahlden," in the Historische Zestschrift (See also:Munich, 1882); and W. H. See also:Wilkins, The Love of an Uncrowned See also:Queen (See also:London, 1900).
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