Clara Elisabeth von Platen
Clara Elisabeth Countess von Platen - Hallermund (* January 14, 1648; † January 30, 1700 at Castle Monbrillant in today Welfengarten in Hanover) was the mistress of the later Elector Ernst August of Brunswick- Lüneburg and Drahtzieherin in Königsmarck affair.
Life
Clara Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of Georg Philipp von Meisenbug and his wife Anna Elisabeth of Meisenbug. Her father and her sister Catharina tried to accommodate the French court at Versailles. After their rejection they went to the court of Duke Ernst August of Brunswick- Lüneburg. At the court of Hanover, she was maid of honor of the Duchess Sophie of the Palatinate.
You won the favor of the Duke and exercised great influence on their lovers. From the Liaison a son and a daughter were born:
- Ernst August (1674-1726)
- Sophie Charlotte (1675-1725), later Baroness von Kielmansegg and Countess of Leinster and Darlington
In September 1673 Clara Elizabeth married in Hildesheim the royal tutor Franz Ernst Graf von Platen - Hallermund ( 1637-1709 ), son of Baron Erasmus von Platen and his third wife Margaretha Catherine of Alvensleben. Her husband made it very fast career, he was raised Prime Minister and to the Count. At the same time her sister, Catharina von Busche, the mistress of Prince Georg Ludwig, until his marriage ( 1682) with the Princess Sophie Dorothea of Brunswick- Lüneburg- Celle. Was
Endless family squabbles of the Duke took the Countess von Platen in their favor and was regarded as the most powerful woman in Hanover. As in 1688, the Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck entered the service of the Duke, she could not resist the charm of seventeen years younger extremely handsome bon vivant. Whether she's received a love affair not known. In January 1694 she was trying to marry off her daughter with the Count, but Königsmarck refused on the relationship between the Platen and the Count deteriorated rapidly. She was considered Drahtzieherin in the " Königsmarck affair " with the Count disappeared without a trace and the Kurprinzessin was jailed at Schloss Ahlden. After her death copies were in circulation a confession that they should have made on her deathbed. In this they admitted their complicity in King Marcks death. However, the original document itself never came.