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to propose a royal marriage. This ancestor was gifted an elephant in Sicily, which he brought back and presented to the King, who in return gave him the original estates in
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His son Paul was also a captain of the noble military levy between 1645 and 1648. His brother Andrew was a noble judge in 1648.
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