Huh. That's really interesting. Poor Heinrich, with his taste for charismatic bastards. (Lehndorff would like to recommend the true hero of 1730, Peter Keith, to you, Heinrich, if he can't convince you to go for himself!) I'm glad he had the Comte at this point, and was able to be amiable exes with at least some of his bastards.

Ghost of Fritz: I told her Mara was a bad husband!

Speaking of 1799, that reminds me: are you able, in the middle of the pandemic and also your r/l duties, able to get your hands on Ziebura's edition of the final published volume of Lehndorff's diary? I know it's outside your time period, but it may still be relevant to your current interests!