Catharina Charlotta De la Gardie
Countess Catharina Charlotta De la Gardie (* 18th March 1654 / 55 ; † 15. September 1697 ) was the wife of the Venetian Generalissimo and war hero Otto Wilhelm Graf von Königsmarck , whom she married on February 9 1,682th
Catharina Charlotta was the eldest daughter of the Colonel Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie and the Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosine von Zweibrücken-Kleeburg , the sister of King Charles X of Sweden. She was thus a first cousin of the Swedish King Charles XI.
But neither this relationship, nor the fame of her husband, saved the childless widow from challenges to the reduction of property , from inconvenience with the now only Königsmarck heir, the brilliant Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck , her nephew, who did not even pay her the widow's money due to her, and hence from financial embarrassment.
The golden Venetian bowl - a gift of honor from the Republic of Venice to her husband - which she calls the “golden hand barrel” in her will, she had pledged to the Hamburg bank for 2500 thalers.
She stayed at Agathenburg , where she died in 1697. Her coffin suffered the fate of the rest of the family.
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| SURNAME | De la Gardie, Catharina Charlotta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gardie, Catharina Charlotte De la; Taube, Catharina Charlotta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of the Venetian generalissimo Otto Wilhelm Graf von Königsmarck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1654 or March 18, 1655 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1697 |