Gustaf Adolf Lewenhaupt

Count Gustaf Adolf Levenhaupt (aka Löwenhaupt; 1619–1656) was a Swedish soldier and statesman.

In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) he commanded troops at the Battle of Breitenfeld (First Battle of Leipzig), in 1642.

[1] Queen Christina of Sweden promised him the Himmelpforten Convent with all its revenues,[2] and on 30 July/ 9 August 1651O.S./N.S.

he was invested with the convent as a fief heritable in the male line (Mannlehen).

[3] In the course of the Great Reduction of 1680 in the following year the general government of Swedish Bremen-Verden revoked the enfeoffment to the Lewenhaupt/Löwenhaupt counts, so that Lewenhaupt's son Gustaf Mauritz (1651–1700) lost Himmelpforten again to the Swedish crown.