Career
He was allegedly the lover of Sophia Dorothea, Princess of Celle, the wife of Duke George Louis of Brunswick and Lunenburg, the heir presumptive of the Principality of Calenberg, later to become Elector of Hanover (as George I Louis, 1708) and King of Great Britain (as George I, 1714). The assassins were hanged on 10 March 1682 though their alleged hirer was acquitted. After wandering and fighting in various parts of Europe he entered the service of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover.
Remembered as the lover of the princess, due to the large amount of love letters that are now preserved at the University of Lund, he was seized, and disappeared from history: On the morning of 2 July 1694, after a meeting with Sophia, he disappeared from the Leineschloss castle.
He was murdered at the instigation of George Louis, and his body was disposed of in a river, possibly the Leine in Germany. lieutenant is alleged that two of those involved in his death made confessions years later.