Re: Tr: Re: VMs: Hi from another newbie

[Heikki Qvist <heikki.qvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

jean-yves artero wrote:

> Hi
>
> About Richard Strein:
>
> http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/langling/marchlessons/gothasides.html
>
> He is linked to the Codex Argenteus story; he bought
> the boook for Rudolph II:
>
> The Codex Argenteus
>
> "Sweden had gotten a new Queen (Christina; remember
> Greta Garbo), imperious and scholarly.   Her favorite
> was a young semi-French gallant named Magnus Gabriel
> de la Gardie.   He turned a mean calf (no falsche
> Waden a la Goethe) and had his own hair; one could
> write a great deal (and a great deal has been written)
> about their romance.   Both he and the queen were
>  

Just for curiosity:
I looked up some Swedish genealogy sites and there's still 
misinformation about Dela Gardie family origin.
During the 1500's Pontus dela Gardie (ancestor of Magnus Gabriel), a 
Belgian mercenarie, became a Swedish count for his services for King.
In official documents it is mentioned that Pontus was a noble origin, 
and that his father was "master of /Roussol/ and /La Gardie/ and 
/Catherine de Sainte Colombe/".
But this information seems to be fake. A descendant of P.dela Gardie, CJ 
*Gardberg, a historian, has researches documents in French (Languedoc) 
and found out his prefather didn't have a noble blood. Actually Roussol 
and La Gardie were small farms, the latter's size was 15000 square 
meters! Pontus' father was landmerchant and paternal grandfather was a 
tailor.
There is an article in Finnish Genealogy magazine about this but I guess 
it is not in English.

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