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De la Gardie (?)
Aka Delagardie. Two main contendors: 1) Pontus de la Gardie (1520?–1585) originally Ponce d’Escouperie, left France in 1565, mercenary for Denmark, captured by Swedes, switched sides, became Pontus de la Gardie, married Sofia Johansdotter, illegitimate daughter of king Johan III of Sweden, became Governor of Swedish Estonia (1574-1575), captured Narva from Russia (1581), re-Governor of Swedish Estonia (1583-1585), drowned in Narva River, buried in Toom-Kirik. No street named after him, just a shopping center in Viru tänav although there was a redoubt in his name on one of the south-east city walls ca. 1710. And 2) Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-1686), his grandson, Lord High Treasurer of Sweden (1652-1660) and Governor-General of Livonia (1649-1651) with many an ‘etc.’ between, as well as Count of Kuressaare responsible for building the town’s Town Hall and, rumor has it the weighhouse (vaekoda) on Saaremaa (probably him).
Eppingi torn (?): 
Possibly Tideman Eppynck, 14th C, spelled variously as Thilmannus, Thidemannus, Tydemann, Thidericus and Eppynch, Eppingh, Eppinc, Eppingk. A wealthy burgher in charge of one of the Tallinn towers, although not necessarily this one. There were various ‘Eppincks’: one recorded as dying in 1378, and another, a Tafelbruder, member of the Tafelgilde, a lesser guild involved in feeding the poor, in 1383, along with a Hinrik Eppinchusen, not only a Tafelbruder too from 1399, but alderman of the Kinder- or Große Gilde (Est. Suurgild), or Great Guild, from 1427-31, and appointed Kämmerer, or councilor warden of the city finances, in 1432. Uncertain. See also Wulfardi-tagune torn. The Great Guildhouse is at Pikk 17.
Fulfordi-tagune torn (0)
Commonly used but incorrect name of Wulfardi-tagune torn.
Grusbeke-tagune torn (0):
Tower Behind Grusbeke’s, after Ar[e]nd Grusbeken / Gruzebeke, 15th C, said to be a wealthy burgher of Tallinn, recorded, amongst other things, as borrowing 50 marks from Arnd Saffenberch in 1428, using his house near Oleviste as security. Tower referred to as by Gruszeken in 1509, so he presumably lived nearby. See also Hattorpe-tagune torn.
