Philip Joseph, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg (1709–1779) was the first

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Salm-Kyrburg Salm-Kyrburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire located in present-day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, one of the various partitions of Salm (state), Salm. It was twice created: the first time as a Wild- and Rhinegraviate (partitioned from Upper ...

, from 1743 to 1779.

Life and reign

Philip Joseph was the second son of Hendrik Gabriel Joseph of Salm-Kyrburg (1674–1716), regent of Salm-Kyrburg from 1696 to 1716, and his wife Princess Maria Theresia de Croÿ (1678–1713), daughter of Philippe François Albert de Croÿ, marquis de Warneck (1645–1710). His paternal grandfather was general (1638–1676). He had an elder brother, (1708–1778), and a sister, Henriëtte (who married Maximilian, Prince van Hornes (1695–1763), 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 The first Waldgraves or Wildgraves (Latin: ''comites silvestres'') descended from a division of the House of the Counts of Nahegau in the year 1113. When the (a countship named after the river Nahe) split into two parts in 1113, the count ...

of Dhaun" and "

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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

. Emanuel's other daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hornes, widow of Gustaaf Adolf, Prince of Stolberg-Gedern and mother of

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's wife Louise, 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 (1737–1792), duc de Thouars *

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(1744–1794), later 2nd prince of Salm-Kyrburg * Auguste Friederike (1747–1822), married Duke Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ (1743–1803). * 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

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References

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