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Mar 28, 1691 Stockholm City, Sweden Died on 04 Aug 1743 (aged 52)
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About Charles Emil Lewenhaupt
- Charles Emil Lewenhaupt the Elder (28 March 1691 – 4 August 1743) was a Swedish general. Lewenhaupt was born to Count Carl Gustaf Löwenhaupt and Countess Amalia Königsmarck.
- At the age of 16, he entered Dutch service where he was promoted to the rank of captain in 1709.
- A year later he entered Swedish service.
- He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and participated at the battle of Gadebusch in 1712. In 1720, Lewenhaupt married Beata Cronhielm.
- The couple had one son, Charles Emil Lewenhaupt the Younger.
- In 1722, he was promoted to major general.
- At the Riksdag of the Estates of 1741, he was a factor in the decision to wage war against Imperial Russia, in what became the Russo-Swedish War of 1741–1743. Following the war, on 20 June 1743, Lewenhaupt was sentenced to death on grounds of poor performance and conduct in the war.
- The execution was set to 20 July, and later postponed to 30 July.
- Lewenhaupts' son and a small party managed to free him, but Lewenhaupt was re-arrested when aboard a vessel in the Stockholm archipelago bound for Danzig. On 4 August 1743, Lewenhaupt was decapitated at Norrtull in Stockholm.
