Solms-Wildenfels was a minor County around

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in south-western

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. The

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had its origins at

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, Hesse.

Solms-Wildenfels was a partition of

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. In 1741 it was partitioned between itself and Solms-Sachsenfeld, and reintegrated that County upon its extinction in 1896. Solms-Wildenfels was mediatised to

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in 1806.

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Counts of Solms-Wildenfels (1696–1806)

* Otto Henry William (1696–1741) * Henry Charles (1741–46) * Frederick Magnus I (1746–1801) * Frederick Magnus II (1801–06)

Mediatized Counts of Solms-Wildenfels

* Friedrich Magnus II (1806–1857) * Friedrich Magnus III (1857-1883) * Friedrich Magnus IV (1883-1910) * Friedrich Magnus V (1910-1945), married

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, who presumably became the head of the

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in 1971. Following her brother's death in 1971 in the House of Schwarzburg became extinct in the male line. However the Schwarzburg principalities operated under

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primogeniture which means that in the event of the extinction of all male dynasts, as happened with the death of Prince Friedrich Günther, females can inherit.House Laws of Schwarzburg
/ref> * Friedrich Magnus VI (1945-) : upon

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's death in 1984, Friedrich Magnus VI inherited a claim to the headship of the

under

semi-Salic law The Salic law ( or ; la, Lex salica), also called the was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the first Frankish King, Clovis. The written text is in Latin and contains some of the earliest known instances of Old Du ...

.James, John ''Almanach de Gotha, Volume I'', 2013.

References

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