Ebba Margaretha De la Gardie

Ebba Margaretha De la Gardie. Oil painting, attributed to Olof Arenius .

Ebba Margaretha De la Gardie (* 13 November ^July / 24 November  1704 ^greg. In Tallinn ; † 30 August ^July / 10 September  1775 ^greg. On the island of Hiiumaa ) was a Swedish countess.

Life

Ebba Margaretha De la Gardie was born as the daughter of the Swedish nobleman Adam Carl De la Gardie (1665-1721) and his wife Anna Juliana Horn af Kanckas (1667-1753) in the Estonian capital.

Her grandfather Axel Julius De la Gardie (1637-1710) was Governor General of Estonia from 1687 to 1704 . She is named after her father's youngest sister.

Ebba Margaretha De la Gardie was married to the Baltic German nobleman and politician Friedrich Magnus Stenbock (around 1696-1745) from 1722 . The couple had nine children:

- Eva Juliane von Reutern (1724–1753)
- Carl Magnus Stenbock (1725–1798)
- Friedrich Ulrich Stenbock (1727–1784)
- Magdalena Christina Stenbock (1729–1801)
- Ulrika Stenbock (1732–1783)
- Hedvig Sofia Stenbock ( 1734–1809)
- Johann Stenbock (1736–1807)
- Beata Eleonora Stenbock (1737–1766)
- Jakob Pontus Stenbock (1744–1824)

Hiiumaa

1755 was Ebba Margaretha Stenbock by a decree of Russian Empress Elisabeth the title to the estate Suuremõisa (German Grossenhof ) and other lands on the island of Hiiumaa transmitted. The estate had been owned by her father at the end of the 17th century before it was reduced to the then Swedish crown.

Ebba Margaretha had the estate expanded vigorously. The castle-like mansion, one of the largest and best-preserved examples of late Baroque architecture in Estonia, was built under her aegis . Later the estate was passed on to her son Jakob Pontus Stenbock .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg: Genealogical Handbook of the Estonian Knighthood , Vol .: 1, Görlitz, 1931