Pontus De la Gardie's second son, Jacob De la Gardie, was given the title count of Läckö in 1615 and his son Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie became favourite of Queen Kristina and married her cousin, Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken (sister to Charles X Gustav of Sweden).
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In July 1677 Gyldenløve captured the fortress at Marstrand and joined General Løvenhjelm, who marched into Bohuslen with the main Norwegian army and defeated an army of 8000 Swedes under General de la Gardie.
1 June 1658 married 2ndly Gothenburg countess Christina Catharine De la Gardie (1632–1704), daughter of Field Marshal and Count Jakob De la Gardie (1583–1652) and Countess Ebba Brahe (1596–1674) in Göteborg and bought one of the largest estate in the Baltic area (Kolga manor, Kuusalu Parish) in Estonia from De la Gardie family with a land of 500 km².
Through succession and sales the castle has belonged to the families Thott, von Königsmarck, de la Gardie, Sjöblad, Ruuth, Piper, Tornerhielm and Wachtmeister.
After the death of Königsmarck in 1688, she lived with Charlotta De la Gardie in Stade in the Swedish Province of Bremen in Germany.
The family of her future spouse was had economic troubles since the reduction made by Charles XI of Sweden in the 1680s, and the marriage was arranged by her mother to save the finances of the De la Gardie family with her personal fortune.
Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie was given the (Lesser) Order of Saint Catherine in 1814.
He also had access to de la Gardie's extensive library and made a Swedish verse translation of the history of Alexander the Great, which was published in Visingsborg in 1672.
Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (Hamburg, 1661 – Stockholm, 1708), was a Swedish writer, poet, lady-in-waiting and noble.
In 1674, the Italian diplomat Lorenzo Magalotti estimated that De la Gardie had at least 50 on-going projects in Sweden and its provinces, excluding the 37 churches he was constructing or repairing at the time.
Among her noted ladies-in-waitings were the sister-couple De la Gardie: the singer Ebba Maria and the poet Johanna Eleonora.