Königsmark, Countess Maria Aurora

Königsmark, Countess Maria Aurora

(märē`ä ouro͞o`rä kö`nĭksmärk), 1666–1728, Swedish noblewoman; sister of Count Philipp Christoph Königsmark. She went to Dresden in search of her missing brother and there became the mistress of Augustus II of Poland and Saxony. Their son, Maurice, was the famous Marshal de SaxeSaxe, Maurice, comte de
, 1696–1750, marshal of France, one of the greatest generals of his age. He was the illegitimate son of Augustus II of Poland and Saxony and Countess Maria Aurora von Königsmark.
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. In her last years she was abbess coadjutor at Quedlinburg.