de la Gardie or Delagardie (Pontus de la Gardie, 1520?–1585)

Originally Ponce d’Escouperie, left France in 1565, became 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 he is said to be behind the creation of the Kuressare weighhouse on Saaremaa, completed in 1663...).