Louis Otto, Prince of Salm
Ludwig Otto, Fürst zu Salm[1] (Louis Otto, Prince of Salm; 24 October 1674 – 23 November 1738) was the Count of Salm-Salm from 1710, the only son of the Imperial chamberlain (Reichskämmerer) Carl Theodor Otto, fuerst von Salm (1645–1710) and Luise Maria Pfalzgräfin bei Rhein zu Simmern (1647-1679).[2][3]
Ludwig Otto married Albertine Johannette, Princess of Nassau-Hadamar (5 July 1679 – 11 June 1716) on 20 July 1700. She was a great-granddaughter of John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, brother of William the Silent.[4] The couple had three children:
- Dorothea Franziska Agnes (21 January 1702 – 25 January 1751); married Nicholas Leopold, count of Salm-Hoogstraten [5] and they became the Prince and Princess of Salm-Salm, [6] had eighteen children and have many descendants including Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm and Princess Isabella of Croÿ.
- Elisabeth Alexandrine Felicite Charlotte Gotfriede (21 July 1704 – 27 December 1739); married Claude Lamoral, 6th Prince of Ligne and had issue.
- Christine Anna Luise Oswaldine (29 April 1707 – 19 August 1775); married Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg, son of Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort; their eldest daughter Viktoria married the French prince de Soubise.
Ludwig Otto died in Anholt castle in 1738.[1] With his death the male line of descendants (altfürstliche Linie Salm) came to an end, since Ludwig Otto had no son as heir.
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Salm, at genealogy.euweb.cz
- ↑ Genealogie der 1623 gefürsteten Linie Salm (altfürstliche Linie Salm), at dr-bernhard-peter.de
- ↑ Luise Maria, Pfalzgräfin von Simmern, at geneall.net
- ↑ Albertine Johanna, Prinzessin von Nassau-Hadamar, at geneall.net
- ↑ Portrait of Nicolas Leopold, Fürst von Salm (1701-1770)
- ↑ Nicolaus Leopold, at deutsche-biographie.de
External links
- Salm, in Brockhaus Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon (1837), at zeno.org (in German)
- Salm, at deutsche-biographie.de (in German)
- House of Salm, at europeanheraldry.org
- Die Fürsten zu Salm aus dem Hause der Rhein- und Wildgrafen, at dr-bernhard-peter.de (in German)
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