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the church, did not attend the consecration ceremony. He passed away during a visit to Gothenburg on April 17, 1693 and was buried in the German Church there in the presence of King Charles XI. Among the illustrious gathering that attended the church's consecration ceremony, many of the late governor's children and sons-in-law stood out, such
as his eldest son, Count Christian Ludvig von Ascheberg, who, born in 1662, became colonel of the queen's life regiment in 1693 and died as a general lieutenant of cavalry in 1722 at Sovdeborg, childless and ending the count's lineage, his daughter Sophia Lovisa and her husband, the governor of Kalmar and Blekinge, the general admiral, Excellency Count Hans Wachtmeister of Johannishus, his daughter Eleonora Elisabeth and her husband, the vice-governor of Skane, the commander of Malmo, Colonel David Makeleer (Maclean), his daughter Margaretha and her husband, the cavalier master Kjeld Christoffer Barnekow, and his son- in-law, the cavalier master Goran Lilliehook, who was the grandson of Ascheberg's eldest daughter Margaretha Sabina in her second marriage. After the solemn ceremony, which lasted from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, the Ascheberg descendants arranged a large banquet (convivium) in the Go- vernor's House, to which many of the most prominent and distinguished individuals were invited.
The Governor's Residence was described in February 1692, along with the other properties in the city, on the order of the magistrates. The in- spection instrument for the property includes the following: "His High- ness, Count Excelence's house on the Church Street, 20 feet wide from east to west and 55 feet wide from east to the Ostergatan and 64 feet long from south to north." During the time that the property was owned by the von Haghens' heirs, it was, as expected, a subject of Leonora Chris- tina Ulfeldt and her family's attempts to recover it from the Swedish crown. In 1678, Lave Beck, the Skane landowner and nobleman, who was married to Leonora Christina's beautiful daughter Leonora Sophie, made a representation on his wife's behalf to the Swedish government
to restore the Ulfeldt family's Skane properties, but without success. Shortly after Leonora Christina settled at Maribo convent, she took the matter into her own hands. After several written appeals to King Karl XI, he ordered an investigation on April 20, 1695, into the conditions on which her claims were based and the investigation was to be carried out by the Chancellery College and the Reduction Commission. However, this investigation, if it did take place during the king's lifetime, would probably have only concerned the Skane properties and not the Malmo properties. In any case, the further handling of the case stopped within a few years, both because of Karl XI's death on April 5, 1697, and due to Leonora Christina's death the following year on March 16, 1698.
The Ulfeldt property was at the end of the 17th century the largest and most comfortable in the city. It also had the central location with its street corners where the daily life of the city's main business streets,
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