Königsmark

Königsmark, COUNT PHILIPP CHRISTOPH VON, a Swede by birth, born about 1662, who, having entered the service of the Elector of Hanover, was accused of carrying on a love intrigue with Sophia Dorothea, wife of the Elector George, afterwards George I. of England, and suddenly disappeared on 1st July 1694. It is believed that he was murdered. Sophia was confined in the castle of Ahlden until her death in 1726. See a Quarterly article (1885); Vizetelly, Count Königsmark (1890); and Wilkins's Love of an Uncrowned Queen (1900). —MARIE AURORA, Countess of Königsmark, sister of Count Philipp, born at Stade in 1670, became in 1694 the mistress of Augustus II., Elector of Saxony, and by him mother of the celebrated Marshal Saxe (q.v.). When Augustus grew tired of her she entered Quedlinburg nunnery, and died prioress of it, 16th February 1728.