Feb. 21. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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I send you a list of a few more knights and ladies 

 who wear this collar : 



A.D. 



1382. Sir Thomas Burton, at Little Casterton, 

 Rutlandshire. 



1407. Sir W. and Lady Bagot, at Baginton, War- 

 wickshire. 



1411. Sir John Drayton, at Dorchester, Oxford- 



shire. 



1412. Sir Thomas Swynborne, at Little Horkes- 



ley, Essex. 



1424. Lord and Lady Camoys, at Trotton, Sussex. 



1430. Sir John Dyve, at St. Owens, Bromham, 

 Beds. 



1435. Lady Delamere (but not worn by her hus- 

 band), at Hereford Cathedral. 



As regards the brass of Sir Thomas Burton, 

 although the date affixed to it is 1382, yet it is 

 quite evident, from the style of armour worn by 

 him, and the execution of the brass itself, that it 

 was not executed till 1410, and that he died about 

 that time, and his wife at the date mentioned. 



H. L. 



To Mr, Toss's list of effigies bearing the Collar 

 of SS. allow me to add the brass of Sir Thomas 

 Peryent and his lady, at Digswell, Herts, both of 

 whom wear this collar. Sir Thomas was a squire 

 at arms to Henry IV., and died a.d. 1416. 



At Arundel Church, also in Sussex, is a brass 

 to Thomas Salmon and his lady. The figure of 

 the knight is destroyed, but that of his lady bears 

 the collar. Perhaps some of your readers can give 

 some account of this knight. 



Query, What persons are now entitled to wear 

 ^t ? Nedlam. 



THE KONIGSMARKS. 



(Vol. v., pp. 78. 115.) 

 A tragic destiny was that of most of the pos- 

 terity of that John Christopher Konigsmark, who 

 commanded at the storm of the suburbs of Prague, 

 the last deed of arms of the Thirty Years' War. 

 John Christopher himself was born at Kotzlin in 

 the Mark on Feb. 25, 1600, and from his brother 

 descended the Konigsmarks of the Mark. He 

 fought first in the imperial service and in Italy, 

 but afterwards joined the Swedes, and after the 

 peace was Stadtholder of Bremen and Vredun, be- 

 came Count and Royal Councillor (Reichsrath), 

 and left behind him at his death in 1663 property 

 worth 130,000 thalers yearly. He had three 

 sons; the second, John Christopher, died in 1653 

 at Rottemburg, in Swabia, by a fall from his 

 horse. The youngest. Count Otto Wilhelm, was 

 born at Minden on June 3, 1639 ; studied under 

 Esnius Puffendorf, and in 1654 was Rector Mag- 

 nificus at Jena; served different powers as soldier 

 and diplomatist ; distinguished himself as general 



of the Venetians in the Morea; and died on Sep- 

 tember 16, 1688, of fever, when before Negropont. 

 He was married to a Countess de la Gardie, of the 

 well-known Swedish family. He probably was 

 that Count Konigsmark to whose protection Johu 

 Leyser (Theophilus Alethaus) fled when he for- 

 feited his offices of preacher and inspector at 

 Pforta, which he had held since 1664, on account 

 of, although himself chaste and virtuous, having 

 defended polygamy; was pursued, taken, placed in 

 prison, and died at Amsterdam in extreme poverty 

 in 1684. The eldest son, Konrad, was first in the 

 Swedish, then in the Dutch service, and fell a lieu- 

 tenant-general at the siege of Bonn in 1673. He 

 had married Marie Christine, daughter of Marshal 

 Hermann Wrangel, and the Pfalzgravine Amalie 

 Magdalene of Sulzbach, who bore him three sons 

 and two daughters ; one son died young. Which 

 of the two others was the elder is doubtfuL 

 Certain it is that the one, Karl Johann, who is 

 generally, though on no sufficient grounds, held to 

 be the elder, was born in 1659, at Nieuburg on 

 Fuhnen ; studied till 1674 at Hamburg and Stade; 

 then travelled in Holland, England, France, and 

 Italy; fought so bravely on board the Maltese 

 galleys, that on his departure in 1678 he, although 

 a protestant, received the grand cross of the order. 

 He then visited Rome, Florence, Genoa, Venice, 

 Madrid, Paris, Holland, Hamburg, Stockholm, 

 Windsor ; set out in all haste when Tangiers was 

 attacked, to take share in the battle ; and, as the 

 fleet was delayed by contrary winds, made his 

 journey to Tangiers through France and Spain ; 

 from thence back again to Madrid and Paris ; then 

 again to Gibraltar, and three times to Africa ; was 

 with the English before Algiers ; wandered round 

 in Holland, England, and Germany ; was with the 

 French before Courtrai ; and in Catalonia fought 

 bravely under his uncle at Argos, and died in 

 Greece on August 26, 1686. 



The most mysterious episode of his life was 

 brought on by his sueing for England's richest 

 and highest heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of Josce- 

 line, second Earl of Northumberland. 



The other brother. Count Philip Christopher, 

 was involved in the well-known tale of the un- 

 fortunate wife of George L, the unhappy Sophia 

 Dorothea of Zelle, afterwards Duchess of Ahlden, 

 and met his death under circumstances of much 

 mystery. According to the Duchess's assertion, he 

 was the elder brother, as she states he was born 

 in 1656. 



The sisters were — Amalie Wilhelmina, and the 

 well-known mistress of Augustus II., Maria Au- 

 rora, the mother of Marshal Saxe. Amalie mar- 

 ried the Count Charles Gustavus of Lowenhaupt. 



Extract from Von Bulau's Geheime Geschichten^ 

 vol. iii., article on " Count Lowenhaupt." J. R. J. 



