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

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Here is a bit more about this guy.

A portrait:

http://www.trocadero.com/dvlaster/items/413736/en1.html

An other one with wife, and bio:

http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/M/Magnus-Gabriel-De-la-Gardie.htm

An other bio:

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/m/ma/magnus_gabriel_de_la_gardie_1.html

Some indications about his family tree:

http://worldroots.com/cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I08338@

A reference:

http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Magnus_Gabriel_De_La_Gardie/9171001743/

And finally an article:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArticleMagnus.html

Jean

PS Did not search for French material at this stage.

--- Heikki Qvist <heikki.qvist@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 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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