Magnus Ernst or Ernst Magnus Dönhoff (or Denhoff) (1581 - 1642) was a Baltic German who served the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Livonia and the Duchy of Prussia. Always referred to as Magnus Ernst by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who wrote an extensive genealogy and history study of all the family branches, Magnus Ernst Dönhoff was the founder of the eastern Prussian line of the Dönhoff family.

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  • Magnus Ernst or Ernst Magnus Dönhoff (or Denhoff) (1581 - 1642) was a Baltic German who served the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Livonia and the Duchy of Prussia. Always referred to as Magnus Ernst by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who wrote an extensive genealogy and history study of all the family branches, Magnus Ernst Dönhoff was the founder of the eastern Prussian line of the Dönhoff family. He came from Livonia and for services to George William, Elector of Brandenburg, he established his residence in Waldau near Königsberg. He was the brother of Gerhard Dönhoff and Kaspar von Dönhoff. He was married to Countess Katharina zu Dohna; they had four children. Three of their sons were born at Waldau. Dönhoff was Castellan of Pärnu (Parnawa) from 1635, voivode of Parnawa from 1640, starost of Tartu (Derpsk), Telšiai (Telszew) and of Waldau in the Pregel valley in the Duchy of Prussia. Dönhoff belonged to the commission which from 1625 worked for a peace agreement between Sweden and Poland. He was also instrumental in the negotiations at the peace of Altmark and at Sztumska Wieś. Dönhoff became Count of the Holy Roman Empire since 1633. His son Friedrich Graf Dönhoff, born in Waldau in 1639, took up service for the Brandenburg electoral court.
  • Ernest Magnus Denhoff, Magnus Ernst von Dönhoff herbu Dzik - brat Gerarda i Kaspra, kasztelan parnawski 1635 r. , wojewoda parnawski 1640 r. , starosta dorpacki, starosta telszewski. Od jego syna - Fryderyka - wywodzi się pruska linia rodu Dönhoff. Potomkowie Ernesta Magnusa: Gerard (*ok. 1632 †1685); dworzanin królewski, chorąży nadworny koronny 1661, cześnik litewski 1661, podstoli litewski 1666, starosta telszewski; × Anna Beata von Goldstein Bogusław Ernest; podkomorzy wielki litewski 1702, generał lejtnant wojsk koronnych 1705, generał artylerii litewskiej 1710-1725,×; rozwiedzeni Marianna Bielińska; (2°-v. Jerzy Ignacy ks. Lubomirski, pisarz polny koronny) Magnus Jan; brygadier w służbie holenderskiej Maria Eleonora; × Ahaswer hr. Lehndorff Katarzyna; ×1 Jan Fryderyk von Schlieben; ×2 Teodoryk von Tettau Zofia Karolina; × Gerard Ernest hr. Lehndorff Ernest; generał lejtnant wojsk koronnych, woj. malborski 1685, marszałek dworu królowej 1687; ×1 Zofia Anna Oleśnicka; ×2 Konstancja Słuszczanka Joanna (z pierwszego; †po 1716); × Stanisław Denhoff, woj. połocki Fryderyk; pruski generał lejtnant, tajny i wojenny radca elektora brandenburskiego; × Eleonora Katarzyna Elżbieta bar. von Schwerin; po nim potomstwo (linia pruska - Dönhoff) Anna Katarzyna; × Jan Zygmunt baron Kettler
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  • Magnus Ernst or Ernst Magnus Dönhoff (or Denhoff) (1581 - 1642) was a Baltic German who served the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Livonia and the Duchy of Prussia. Always referred to as Magnus Ernst by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who wrote an extensive genealogy and history study of all the family branches, Magnus Ernst Dönhoff was the founder of the eastern Prussian line of the Dönhoff family.
  • Ernest Magnus Denhoff, Magnus Ernst von Dönhoff herbu Dzik - brat Gerarda i Kaspra, kasztelan parnawski 1635 r. , wojewoda parnawski 1640 r. , starosta dorpacki, starosta telszewski. Od jego syna - Fryderyka - wywodzi się pruska linia rodu Dönhoff. Potomkowie Ernesta Magnusa: Gerard (*ok.
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  • Ernst Magnus Dönhoff
  • Ernest Magnus Denhoff
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