Otto Louis of Salm, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Kyrburg and Mörchingen (13 October 1597 – 6 October 1634,

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) was a Swedish general during the

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. He was governor in the

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and Commander of the Swedish troops in the Upper Rhine. He died of the plague at Speyer and was buried in

Strasbourg Cathedral Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or ''Cathédrale de Strasbourg'', german: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg or ''Straßburger Münster''), also known as Strasbourg ...

. His parents were

John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen (1575–1623) was Wild- and Rhinegrave of Kyrburg and Count of Salm. He was the son of Otto I (1538–1607) and Ottilie of Nassau-Weilburg (1546-). Many of his relatives served as soldiers in Swedish service ...

(1575–1623) and Anna Catherine, Baroness of Criechingen (d. 1638).

Married and issue

In August 1633 he married

Anna Magdalene of Hanau Countess Anna Magdalena von Hanau-Lichtenberg (14 December 1600 in Bouxwiller – 22 February 1673), was a daughter of Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1569–1625) and Countess Maria Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim ( ...

. She was the daughter of Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1569–1625) and Countess Maria Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1576–1605). She was also the widow of Lothar of Criechingen (d. 1629) with whom she had a son: Francis Ernest III, Count of Criechingen (d. 1677). With Otto Louis she had another son, Wild- and Rhinegrave John XI (born: 17 April 1635; died: 16 November 1688 in Flonheim, buried in the church of

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). He was born after his father's death. John XI married on 27 December 1669 to Countess Palatine

Elisabeth Johanna of Veldenz Countess Palatine Elisabeth Johanna of Veldenz (22 February 1653 in Lauterecken – 5 February 1718 in Mörchingen), was a Countess Palatine of Veldenz by birth and by marriage Wald- and Rhinegravine of Salm-Kyrburg. Life Elisabeth Johann ...

(born: 22 February 1653; died: 5 February 1718). They had no children. The line Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen died out with John XI's death.

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Swedish generals Salm family Counts of Salm 1597 births 1634 deaths 17th-century German people German people of the Thirty Years' War 17th-century deaths from plague (disease) {{Germany-noble-stub