Wilhelm, Prince of Solms-Braunfels

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William
Prince of Solms-Braunfels
House of Solms-Braunfels
FatherFerdinand William Ernest, Prince of Solms-Braunfels
MotherCountess Sophie of Solms-Laubach
SignatureWilliam's signature

Wilhelm Christian Karl, 3rd Prince of Solms Braunfels (9 January 1759, in Braunfels – 20 March 1837, in Braunfels) was by succession an immediate Prince, then a nobleman and head of the Princely House of Solms-Braunfels, a Prussian major general and Hessian deputy.

Life

Family

William was a member of the Princely House of Solms-Braunfels. His grandfather

Major General Frederick William
(1770–1814) was one of his younger brothers.

On 6 October 1792, he married Wild- und Rheingräfin Auguste of

They had four children:

By his maitresse Anna Elisabeth Becker (1779–1852), whom he married morganatically once widower, he had three children who received patronymic Wilhelmi[2]

Ancestry

Footnotes

  1. ^ ihr Vater war Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Theodor zu Salm, Wild- und Rheingraf zu Salm-Grumbach und Dhaun (1729–1799), vgl. Christoph Graf von Polier's Family Tree: Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Theodor zu Salm (retrieved 2 August 2015) bzw. Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch, Neues preussisches Adels-Lexicon, Band 5, Leipzig 1839, S.392
  2. ^ Familie Wagner - Dillkreis, Anna Elisabeth Becker (retrieved 2 August 2015)