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 and later also of the Russian nobility, usually translated as "count". Considered to be intermediate among noble ranks, the title is often treated as equivalent to the British title ...
of
Salm-Dhaun
Salm is the name of several historic countships and principalities in present Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.
History
Origins and first division
The County of Salm arose in the tenth century in Vielsalm, in the Ardennes region of pres ...
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'' Kirner L ...
, 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 Nassa ...
.
He married on 19 January 1704 in
Ottweiler
Ottweiler () is a municipality, former seat of the district of Neunkirchen, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated on the river Blies, approx. 7 km north of Neunkirchen, and 25 km northeast of Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Fr ...
to his first cousin Louise, the daughter of Count
Frederick Louis of Nassau-Ottweiler. Charles and Louise had ten children:
* Catherine Louise (born 1705)
* Caroline (born 1706)
* Christina (born 1710)
* Wilhelmina (born 1712)
* Albertine (born 1716)
* Charles Augustus (born 1718)
* Sophie Charlotte (born 1719)
* Louise (born 1721)
*
John Philip III (born 1724)
* Jeanette Louise (born 1725)
Charles died 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'' Kirner L ...
, aged 57.
Salm family
Counts of Salm
1675 births
1733 deaths
17th-century German people
18th-century German people
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