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Stenbock who had earlier fought in the Nine Years ' War, later pronounced :" Never have I seen such a combination of uncontrollable dash and perfectly controlled discipline, such soldiers and such subjects are not to be found the wide world over except in Sweden.
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Stenbock and who
Axel Julius De la Gardie and countess Christina Catharine De la Gardie ( 1632 – 1704 ), who married Gustaf Otto Stenbock and was mother of Magnus Stenbock.
She was the daughter of Gustaf Olofsson Stenbock and Brita Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud, who was the sister of the King's previous consort, Margareta Leijonhufvud.
In 1574, she participated in convincing King John to release her nephew Erik Stenbock, who had been imprisoned and deposed from his position by the King on recommendation of Martha Leijonhudvud after his legendary elopement with Martha's daughter.
Stenbock and had
The mystic Karl Adolf Boheman ( 1764 – 1831 ) had been introduced to the couple by Count Magnus Stenbock in 1793 and gained great influence by promising to reveal scientific secrets about the occult.
On the night the queen had died, Countess Stenbock visited Karlberg and was admitted alone to the room containing the remains of the queen.
There were serious plans for a marriage, and Gustavus Adolphus would not have found this impossible, as three previous queens, Margareta Leijonhufvud ( his grandmother ), Katarina Stenbock ( his step-grandmother ) and Gunilla Bielke ( his aunt by marriage ) had also been nobles.
He is said to have said: “ Hadst thou now been alive, thy head would not have been in great safety .” Then Fleming ’ s widow Ebba Stenbock is said to have approached the Duke and responded: “ If my late husband had been alive, Your Grace would never have entered herein .”
There were reports, that Eric had plans to have his brothers as well as other enemies killed before his wedding to Karin Månsdotter, but that the plans failed because Månsdotter warned the intended victims through Catherine Stenbock
In late Fall of 1675 the Swedish fleet under Gustaf Otto Stenbock put to sea, but only got as far as Stora Karlsö off Gotland before it had to turn back to Stockholm, beset by cold and stormy weather, disease, and loss of vital equipment.
Stenbock and War
Count Magnus Gustafsson Stenbock ( Stockholm, August 12, 1664-Copenhagen, February 23, 1717 ) was a Swedish military officer at the time of the Great Northern War.
When the Great Northern War started, Dalregementet was under the command of Magnus Stenbock and was used against Denmark but was soon sent to the Baltic region, taking part in the Battle of Narva in 1700 and skirmishes in Livonia, amongst them the Crossing of Daugava in 1701.
Stenbock and later
With this object, during Charles XII's stay at Altranstädt ( 1706 – 1707 ), he tried to divert the king's attention to the Holstein question, and six years later, when the Swedish commander, Magnus Stenbock, crossed the Elbe, Görtz rendered him as much assistance as was compatible with not openly breaking with Denmark, even going so far as to surrender the fortress of Tönning to the Swedes.
The regent duke Charles ( later king Charles IX ) insulting the corpse of Clas Eriksson Fleming in presence of the Dowager-Governor of Åbo, Ebba Stenbock.
Stenbock and I
* 1621 – Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( b. 1535 )
* 1535 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden ( d. 1621 )
* July 22 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( d. 1621 )
* December 13 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( b. 1535 )
* Katarina Stenbock, ( 1537 – 1610 ), third wife and widow of King Gustav I of Sweden.
Catherine Stenbock ( Swedish: Katarina Gustavsdotter Stenbock ; born at Torpa, Tranemo Municipality, Västergötland on 22 July 1535 – died at Strömsholm, Västmanland on 13 December 1621 ) was the third and last consort of King Gustav I of Sweden, and Queen consort of Sweden between 1552 and 1560.
Stenbock and soldiers
The remaining Swedish army was commanded by Gustaf Otto Stenbock, and this fact made Rakoczi uneasy, as he was well aware of poor quality of his soldiers.
Stenbock and are
* 1710 – In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14, 000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
* February 28 – Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock.
Stenbock and be
The name " Boxholm " is first to be found in the 16th century, as the name of a manor by Arvid Stenbock.
Stenbock could hardly attack this force with a frontal assault, but hoped that by moving west towards Mecklenburg it could be encircled or scattered.
Stenbock and over
Stenbock judged that although the passable terrain was narrow and his men somewhat outnumbered, the thirty Swedish field guns would provide an advantage over the Danish thirteen.
Despite another Swedish victory over the Danes at Gadebusch in December 1712, Stenbock ’ s army was forced to surrender at Tønning in May 1713.
Stenbock and except
In November and December 1655 Swedish army under Gustaf Otto Stenbock captured all towns of Royal Prussia, except for Gdańsk, Puck and Malbork.
The following month saw the Swedisch-Brandenburg-Transylvanian-Romanian-Cossack forces play cat and mouse with the Polish-Lithuanian forces, moving about all of the commonwealth without any major engagements, except the capture of Brest by Charles X Gustav in May, and the sack of Warsaw by Rákóczi and Gustaf Otto Stenbock on 17 June.
Stenbock and Sweden
He was the son of Lucy Sophia Frerichs, a Manchester cotton heiress, and Count Erich Stenbock, of a distinguished Baltic German noble family with Swedish roots which rose to prominence in the service of King Gustav Vasa: Catherine Stenbock was the third and last consort of Gustav Vasa and Queen consort of Sweden between 1552 and 1560.
The resources of Sweden were still very far from being exhausted, and during 1710-1711 the gallant Magnus Stenbock upheld her military supremacy in the north.
He was son of Friherre Gustav Eriksson Stenbock ( 1575 – 1629 ) and Countess Beata Margareta Brahe ( 1583 – 1645 ), born in Torpa, Länghem parish, Tranemo Municipality, Västergötland, Sweden.
Back in the West, in November 1709 Denmark invaded Skåne, and Magnus Stenbock, charged with the defense of Sweden, succeeded in defeating Denmark at Helsingborg in 1710.
Stenbock and .
* February 23 – Magnus Stenbock, Swedish military officer ( b. 1664 )
His only daughter, Clementine Maria, married Count Otto Stenbock, and after his death, Sir Herbert Chermside, a governor of Queensland.
During the war, the most important Swedish commanders besides Charles XII were his close friend Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, also Magnus Stenbock and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.
Eric Stenbock, writer of decadent and macabre fiction and poetry.
Count Eric Stanislaus ( or Stanislaus Eric ) Stenbock ( 12 March 1860 – 26 April 1895 ) was a Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction.
Stenbock was the count of Bogesund and the heir to an estate near Kolga in Estonia.
On April 16, 1628 he married baroness Anna Margareta Bielke at the Stockholm castle, at double wedding, when also his elder brother count Peder Brahe married Kristina Katarina Stenbock.
Armfelt married 1785 countess Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie ( 1761 – 1832 ), daughter of count Carl Julius De la Gardie and countess Magdalena Christina Stenbock.
Married to Magdalena Stenbock.
Count Gustaf Otto Stenbock ( 7 September 1614 – 24 September 1685 ) was a Swedish soldier and politician.
* Christina Katharina Stenbock ( 1649 – 1719 ), married Swedish statesman and Governor-General of Estonia Anders Torstenson.
* Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock ( 1664 – 1729 ), 1684 married Freiherr Lorentz Creutz d. y.
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