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

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. His parents were John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen (1575–1623) and Anna Catherine, Baroness of Criechingen (d. 1638).

Married and issue

In August 1633 he married Anna Magdalene of Hanau. 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 (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 Swedish military personnel of the Thirty Years' War 17th-century deaths from plague (disease) {{Germany-noble-stub