The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02

By LA MARQUISE DE FONTESOY.
IN response to inquiries reaching me
from Chicago regarding Count
Charles Won Koen!gsmarck, now in
that city, and who having lately re-
turned from South America, Is report
cd to be anxious to connect himself
with banking or commercial house
there engaged in foreign trade, may
say that have before me an Official
list OF all tho bona ldo Counts or
koenigsmarek. and that there is none
OF them now living who bears tn.
Christian name OF Karl or Charles. the
late Count Karl Koenigsmarck hav-
Ing died in April of last year at an
advanced age. and after a very SEN
sationnl divorce from his first wife.
who was a member of the princeiy
house OF Sayn- Wittgenstein.
There is. however. a member of the
historic house OF Koenigsmarck, name
ly Count Otto of that tlk. about forty
years or age. captain of the Hess!an
Dragons Regiment who married at
Berlin. in June. 1908. Miss Leila Per-
ley. Of Alton. III. They now make their
home at Darmstadt.
II the Count Koenigsmarck now
seeking employment al Chicago. is 4
bona fde member OF the family 10
which he claims to belong. II is evil
dent that he must bear some other
Christian name than that OF Charles
There Is perfectly authentic Count
Gunther Won KoeniSsmarck, who some
time ago landed in Jail. FIRST at Nice,
and afterwards at Glogau, in Ger
many. in connection with certain frau
dulent mortgage manipulations and
during his trial 1t was shown that he
was at one time associated with the
widow OF Prince Alexander Lieven, of
Russia, in a matrimonial agency at
Berlin. run with the avowed object of
bringing about marriages between i'm
pecunious European mobiles and Ameri-
can he!resses or millionaire widows
This Count Gunther Koenigsmarck is a
man OF about thirty eight, who has be-
hind him stormy and not altogether
savory career. which comprises no less
than four divorces and five marriages,
his third wife having been Clara
Luckman. who achieved some fame in
literature under the pseudonym OF
Count Salviha"
The present head of the Koentes-
marck family is Count Hans of that
Xix. whose name Is familiar TO MANY
American readers as the author of the
most charming and altogether readable
book that has been published in recent
years about india. 1t is entitled In
Ola Seen Through German Eyes" For
Count Hans is one OF the most brilliant
offcers of the general stan OF the Ger
man army, In which he holds the rank
or colonel. and during his visit to In
dia which was partly for pleasure
and partly for the sake Of military
study, he managed to win in a verv
marked degree the good will and
friendship of Lord Kitchener, who was
then In command of the British forces
there
The Koenigsmarcks are among the
oldest houses of the German aristan
racy. and have played a notable role
In the history of Europe during the
last few hundred years. It was the
Countess Aurora Won Koenigsmarck
renowned for her beauty, who FOUND
favor In the eyes Of King Augustus Of
saxony. by whom she became the
mother OF that famous military lead
er. the Mareschal dc SAKE, the victor
OF the battle of Fontenoy
Another Countess Koenigsmarck
was the official favorite of George 7
or England. while a Count Philin
koen'ssmarck was murdered by the
oHcers OF that monarch as he was en-
crying at night from the apartments
of the Queen. He had been BETRAYED
by one Of her ladies. a Countess PIa-
ten whose advances he had spurneo
and who when he lay on the floor OF
the palace OF Hanover expiring of his
wounds. stamped upon his lips with
her heels. The Queen, II may be re-
membered. was placed under restraint
and kept close prisoner in the Castle
OF Alden for thirty-two years; the only
Queen of England. indeed, upon whom
her British subjects never set eyes.
Count Christopher Koenigsmarck was
one OF the principal generals of the
Thirty Years War and took Prague
Then there was that John Charles
Koenigsmarok who murdered Thomas
Thyme, of Longleat, while the latter
was driving along Pail Mall the OBJ
jeot of the crime being to obtain the
hand of the multi millionaire widow
Of Lord Ogle. who was betrothed to
Tom Thyme. The story of the MUIR
der is recorded in the bas-relief on
Tom Thynne's tomb in Westminster
Abbey The counts accomplces were
executed, but he escaped. and died
years later fighting for the venetians
at the siege OF Argos. A Count Otto
Kocnlgsmarck was Reneralissimo OF