Charles, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun

Wild- and Rhinegrave Charles of Salm-Dhaun (21 September 1675 – 26 March 1733) was Wild- and

Rhinegrave (feminine: ) is a historical title of the German nobility, usually translated as "count". Considered to be intermediate among noble ranks, the title is often treated as equivalent to the British title of "earl" (whose female version is "coun ...

of Salm-Dhaun from 1693 to 1733. He was born in

Hochstetten-Dhaun Hochstetten-Dhaun is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirne ...

, the son of Wild- and Rhinegrave John Philip II of Salm-Dhaun and his wife,

Anna Catherine of Nassau-Ottweiler Anna Catherine of Nassau-Ottweiler (31 January 1653 – 15 February 1731) was a daughter of John Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler and his wife, Countess Palatine Dorothea Catherine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler. She was styled "Countess of Nass ...

. He married on 19 January 1704 in

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to his first cousin Louise, the daughter of Count Frederick Louis of Nassau-Ottweiler. Charles and Louise had ten children: * Catherine Louise (b. 1705) * Caroline (b. 1706) * Christina (b. 1710) * Wilhelmina (b. 1712) * Albertine (b. 1716) * Charles Augustus (b. 1718) * Sophie Charlotte (b. 1719) * Louise (b. 1721) * John Philip III (b. 1724) * Jeanette Louise (b. 1725) Charles died in

, aged 57. Salm family Counts of Salm 1675 births 1733 deaths 17th-century German people 18th-century German people {{Germany-count-stub