Solms-Wildenfels

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County of Solms-Wildenfels
Grafschaft Solms-Wildenfels
1696–1806
Coat of arms of Solms-Wildenfels
Coat of arms
Status
Mediatised to Hesse
1806
• Reintegrated into
    Solms-Sachsenfeld

1896
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Solms Solms-Baruth
Grand Duchy of Hesse

Solms-Wildenfels was a minor county around

Saxony, Germany. The House of Solms[1] had its origins at Solms
, Hesse.

Wildenfels Castle

Solms-Wildenfels was a partition of

mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt
in 1806.

Coat of arms

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 Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg, who presumably became the head of the House of Schwarzburg 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 Semi-Salic 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.[2][self-published source?]
  • Friedrich Magnus VI (1945-) : upon
    semi-Salic law.[3][4][unreliable source?
    ]

References

  1. ^ See German article on the House of Solms or French article Maison de Solms.
  2. ^ House Laws of Schwarzburg
  3. ^ The House of Schwarzburg on Heraldica.org
  4. ^ James, John Almanach de Gotha, Volume I, 2013.