Carl Johann von Königsmarck (15 May 1659 – 28 August 1686) was a Swedish count of Brandenburgian extraction and a soldier.

His sister Maria Aurora von Königsmarck was later mistress to Augustus II the Strong of Poland, with whom she had the son Maurice de Saxe, the brilliant French military commander.

His brother Philip Christoph von Königsmarck died under mysterious circumstances after starting an affair with Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the daughter of George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

[1] Karl Johann von Königsmarck is alleged to have hired three assassins who killed Thomas Thynne – husband of heiress Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset,[2] whom Königsmarck had been wooing – on 12 February 1682 (2 February 1681 O.S.)

After leaving England he joined the army of his uncle Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck in Greece.