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His masseur, Felix Kersten, who had moved to Sweden, acted as an intermediary in negotiations with Count Folke Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross.
* 1895 – Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat ( d. 1948 )
* 1948 – The Lehi ( also known as the Stern gang ) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
In response to a request from Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator for Palestine, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, sent 50 members of the United Nations guard force from Lake Success to assist the Mediator in supervising the Truce in the former British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 and the " UNTSO ", the first peacekeeping operation was established by the United Nations.
Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden was appointed.
On 29 May 1948, UN Security Council Resolution 50 ( 1948 ), called for a cessation of hostilities in Palestine and decided that the truce should be supervised by the UN Mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg, with the assistance of a group of military observers.
The first group of observers to serve in Palestine under the UN Mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, arrived in Rhodes at 6 P. M. GMT 20 July.
On 17 September 1948, UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, and Colonel André Serot while on an official tour of duty to Jerusalem were murdered " in cold blood ... in the Katamon quarter of Jerusalem by Jewish assailants.
Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden is appointed Mediator.
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg ( in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg ; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948 ) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945.
On 28 April, Hitler learned that Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler had contacted Count Folke Bernadotte in Lübeck to offer Germany's surrender to the western Allies ; the offer had been declined.
In 1948, he traveled to the Middle East as the chief aide to Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, who had been appointed by the UN to mediate the conflict.
Ralph Bunche, who had become UN mediator after the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, said:
At the end of the war, Schellenberg was able to persuade Himmler to try negotiating with the Western Allies through Count Folke Bernadotte and personally went to Stockholm in April 1945 to arrange their meeting.
The most well-known is Folke Bernadotte, a son of Oscar Bernadotte, the first Count of Wisborg.
* Count Bertil Bernadotte af Wisborg ( son of Folke ) and Countess Jill Bernadotte af Wisborg.
His father's first cousin was Count Folke Bernadotte, and his own first cousin was the father of King Carl XVI Gustaf.
* Estelle Manville Bernadotte af Wisborg ( 1904-1984 ), American-Swedish countess, married to Count Folke Bernadotte
Most notable among these were Raoul Wallenberg and Count Folke Bernadotte, who saved over 100, 000 European Jews from the concentration camps.
* 360, 000 in September, 1948, according to the Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine published by UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, September 16, 1948.
The Swedish archives testify that Kersten was intermediary between Himmler and Count Folke Bernadotte in the negotiations that led to the rescue operation ' The White Buses ', saving hundreds of Norwegians and Danes from certain death in the last days of the Third Reich.
It was written and prepared by the UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and was published on September 16, 1948 one day before he was assassinated by members of Lehi.

Count and Bernadotte
In response to Himmler's attempts to open peace overtures with the Allies in 1945 through Count Bernadotte, Churchill enquired if they should negotiate with Himmler ' and bump him off later.
* September 17, 1948, Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Count Bernadotte, negotiator of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners including thousands of Jews from German concentration camps during World War II, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.
** Heinrich Himmler, through Count Bernadotte, puts forth an offer of German surrender to the Western Allies, but not the Soviet Union.
Provisional Government of Israel did not submit the report to the Security Council or to the Acting Mediator regarding the progress of the investigation into the assassination of Count Bernadotte.
He was the son of Count Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg ( formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland ) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila.
* Prince Oscar, Duke of Gotland, later Count Oscar Bernadotte af Wisborg ( 1859 – 1953 )
The island belongs to the Lennart Bernadotte-Stiftung ( English: the Lennart Bernadotte Foundation ), an entity created by the late Prince Lennart, Count Bernadotte af Wisborg, formerly a Prince of Sweden and Duke of Småland.
In 1932 Prince Wilhem gave Mainau to his only child Count Lennart Bernadotte who owned it until 1974 when he transferred the island to a foundation.
Count Bernadotte formed Enterprise Mainau GmbH in 1991 as a private enterprise to manage the island for the benefit of the Lennart Bernadotte-Stiftung.
Likewise, Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, who lost his succession rights to the Swedish throne and renounced his titles in 1946 when he married the commoner Elin Kerstin Margaretha Wijkmark.
* 4 Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, 94, Swedish royal.
Notably Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg was chairman of the association for many years.

Count and left
19th century painting on display at Versailles, Yvelines | Versailles depicting Adhemar of Le Puy ( in red to left of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse ).
Bamford left in 1920 and the company was revitalised with funding from Count Louis Zborowski.
In 1388, after Count Louis II of Provence had left to conquer Naples, the Count of Savoy Amadeus VIII took control of Barcelonnette ; however, it returned to Provençal control in 1390, with the d ' Audiffret family as its lords.
* The left wing, composed of knights and foot soldiers was led by Robert de Dreux, Count William of Ponthieu.
Illustration of electors in deliberation ( left to right: Archbishop of Cologne, Archbishop of Mainz, Archbishop of Trier, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Brandenburg and King of Bohemia ).
She left two daughters: Philippa, who married Elias II, Count of Maine ( son of Fulk, Count of Anjou and later King of Jerusalem ), and Felice.
Count ( to the left ) the number of bit positions to the next most significant non-zero bit.
By his wife, the countess Katinka Kendeffy, whom he married in Paris in 1856, Count Andrássy left two sons, and one daughter, Ilona ( b. 1858 ).
Steiner's father, Johann ( es ) Steiner ( 23 June 1829, Geras or Trabenreith, Irnfritz-Messern and lived Geras Abbey, Waldviertel – 1910, Horn ), left a position as a gamekeeper in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie ( 8 May 1834, Horn, Waldviertel – 1918, Horn ), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.
A contemporary depiction of Stephen's family tree, with his mother Adela of Normandy | Adelin at the top, and, left to right, William, Count of Sully | William, Theobald II, Count of Champagne | Theobald and Stephen
Count Rudolph III allowed the villages on the left bank of the Saane to built St. Theodul's church.
Edward escaped to Normandy and Emma herself soon left for Bruges and the court of the Count of Flanders.
Later that year Bodeck left for Paris and met Count Christopher von Dohna, a nobleman of Prussia, who lived 15 km from Elbing.
This left only Count Vilem Slavata, Count Jaroslaw Martinitz ( who had replaced Thurn as Castellan ), known Catholic hard-liners, and the secretary to the Regents.
Taking Prince Edward with them, Isabella and Mortimer left the French court in summer 1326 and travelled north to William I, Count of Hainaut.
This left Charles an orphan at the age of nine, along with his siblings Louis Auguste, Louis Stanislas, Count of Provence, Clotilde (" Madame Clotilde "), and Élisabeth, (" Madame Élisabeth ").
Count Basie ( left ) in concert ( Cologne 1975 )
Count Basie introduced several generations of listeners to the Big Band sound and left an influential catalog.
Ingiltrud, wife of Count Boso, had left her husband for a paramour ; Nicholas commanded the bishops in the dominions of Charles the Bald to excommunicate her unless she returned to her husband.

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