Bothmer, Hans Kaspar [Johann] von, Count Bothmer in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1656–1732), courtier and diplomat, was born on 10 April 1656 ns in Lauenbrück, in the Celle portion of the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, northern Germany, the eldest son of ...
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Andrew C. Thompson
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Kielmansegg, Sophia Charlotte von [formerly Countess Sophia Charlotte von Platen und Hallermund], suo jure countess of Darlington and suo jure countess of Leinster (1675–1725), courtier, was probably born at Osnabrück, Germany, the daughter of Clara Elisabeth, Baroness von Platen, née von Meysenbug (1648–1700)...
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(Johanna Clara) Louise Lehzen, Baroness Lehzen in the Hanoverian nobility (1784–1870) by Princess Victoria, 1833 The Royal Collection © 2004 HM Queen Elizabeth II
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K. D. Reynolds
Lehzen, (Johanna Clara) Louise, Baroness Lehzen in the Hanoverian nobility (1784–1870), royal governess, was born on 3 October 1784 in Hanover, among the younger of the seven daughters and two sons of Joachim Friedrich Lehzen, a Lutheran pastor, and his wife, Melusine Palm...
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Mehemet von Königstreu, (Georg) Ludwig Maximilian (c. 1660–1726), royal administrator, may have been the son of a Turkish pasha who governed Peloponnesian Greece for the Ottoman empire. His Muslim name was Mehemet, by which he is usually known to posterity.
The legend that he and his fellow royal servant ...
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Andrew C. Thompson
Münchhausen, Philipp Adolf von, Baron Münchhausen in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1694–1762), politician and administrator, was born on 7 July 1694 ns at Steinburg, Saxony, the son of Gerlach Heino von Münchhausen (1652–1710) and Katharina Sophie von Selmnitz (1665–1734); his elder brother—the couple's third son—was ...
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J. J. Caudle
Mustapha, Ernst August (d. 1738), royal servant, was probably born in the Ottoman empire. As a young man he was captured in battle by a Swedish officer during the war between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in the 1680s, and not, as is traditionally stated, by ...
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David Scott Gehring
Spithovius [Spithoff], Johannes (d. 1563), royal tutor and diplomat, was born in or near Münster, in Westphalia, and maintained the alias Monasteriensis, though he generally identified himself with the Low Countries. He signed his name most frequently in Latin; his Danish name was ...
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Stockmar, Christian Friedrich, Baron Stockmar (1787–1863), courtier, was born on 22 August 1787 in Coburg, of German parentage and Swedish descent, the eldest son and second child in the family of two sons and two daughters of Johann Ernest Gotthelf Stockmar, a scientific lawyer. A quiet, unobtrusive youth, ...
