Philip Joseph, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg (1709–1779) was the first
prince
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of
Salm-Kyrburg, from 1743 to 1779.
Life and reign
He was the second son of Hendrik Gabriel Joseph of Salm-Kyrburg, regent of Salm-Kyrburg from 1696 to 1716, and his wife Princess Maria Theresia de
Croÿ. He had an elder brother, John, and a sister, Henriëtte (who married
Maximilian, Prince van Hornes, who already had two daughters from a previous marriage, the eldest of whom later married Philip Joseph).
The Salm-Mörchingen family lost the titles of "
Wildgrave
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of
Dhaun
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" and "
Rhinegrave of
Stein" in 1681, when they lacked a male successor. Salm-Kyrburg was from then on run by regents on their behalf. Philip Joseph reigned with his brother John from 1716. When Salm-Kyrburg again arose, this time as a principality, Philip Joseph became its first prince.
Marriage and issue
He married in 1742 to Princess Maria Theresa van
Hornes (1725-1783), who was made her father's sole heir in 1763, with his titles and country estates thus passing to the princes of
Salm-Kyrburg. Emanuel's other daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hornes, widow of Gustaaf Adolf, Prince of
Stolberg-Gedern and mother of
Charles Edward Stuart
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's wife
Louise
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, agreed to this without protest.
Philip Joseph and Maria Theresa had 10 children, including a pair of twins:
* Marie Maximiliane Louise (1744–1790), married
Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille,
duc de Thouars
*
Frederick (1744–1794), later 2nd prince of Salm-Kyrburg
* Auguste Friederike (1747–1822), married Duke
Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ
* Charles Augustus (1750)
* Marie Louise (born 1753, date of death unknown)
* Louis Joseph Ferdinand (1753–1774)
* Elisabeth Claudine (1756–1757)
*
Amalie Zephyrine (1760–1841), married
Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
* Charles Albert Henry (1761)
* Maurice Gustav Adolf (1761–1813), married Countess Christiane von Wartenberg
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1709 births
1779 deaths
German princes
Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)