The son of Christoph von Blumenthal and his wife Dorothea von Hacke, and the first cousin of General von Königsmarck, he was educated privately by the family tutor Johannes Crüger from the age of 10, and then attended the Viadrina from 1622, at the age of 15.
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His other son Montanus, by the second marriage, was a captain in Colonel von Koenigsmarck's regiment and died at Mainz in 1672.
Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662-1728), Swedish noblewoman, mistress of Augustus the Strong
After the death of Königsmarck in 1688, she lived with Charlotta De la Gardie in Stade in the Swedish Province of Bremen in Germany.
Through succession and sales the castle has belonged to the families Thott, von Königsmarck, de la Gardie, Sjöblad, Ruuth, Piper, Tornerhielm and Wachtmeister.