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Count de Salis-Seewis

Count de Salis-Seewis

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Count de Salis-Seewis (also written Comte or Graf v. Salis-Seewis / Graf Salis-Seewis / Graf Salis / Gräfin ["Countess"] von Salis / Graf von Salis) is a primogenitive title created in Versailles, France, on 1 February 1777, while the title Graf (to follow the Count)[2] was created in Vienna, Austria, 16 March 1915.[3]

Gaudenz von Salis, current Count de Salis-Seewis (2005)
Dietegan Magnus à Salis (1473–1531), founder of the House of Salis-Seewis: .[1]

Comtes de Salis-Seewis (1777–1915)

Johann Gaudenz Gubert, second Count de Salis-Seewis. Soldier, statesman, and lieder writer or lyricist.
  • 1) Johann Ulrich Dietegan (1740–1815), married (1760) Jakobea von Salis-Bothmar (1741–1791); 1st Count;[4]
  • 2) Johann Gaudenz Gubert, (Malans 1762 - Malans 1834), poet, married Ursina von Pestalozzi; 2nd Count;[4][5]
  • 3) Johann-Ulrich Dietegan (Chur 1794– Modena 1844), married Barbara von Cleric; 3rd Comte;[4]
  • 4) (kaiserlich und königlich Hauptmann) Johann Gaudenz Gubert Dietegen (Malans 26.1.1824–1873), married (Agram 1857) Wilhelmine von Vranyczany-Dobrinović (Severin/Agram 1839 - Karlstadt 28.12.1898), daughter of Ambros von Vranyczany-Dobrinović by Julie Tompa de Horsova; 4th Count;[4]
Arms of Johann Gaudenz v Salis-Seewis : Salis-Seewis impaling, or quartered with, Salis-Bothmar. From an 1889 book cover, Adolf Frey's biography of the poet.
Salishaus in Seewis.[6]
Bothmar Castle at Malans, Switzerland, current seat of the Counts de Salis-Seewis
Bothmar, Malans, engraving from Adolf Frey's book, 1889.[7]

Counts of Salis-Seewis (after 1915)

  • 5) Feldzeugmeister Johann Ulrich Graf von Salis-Seewis[8] (Karlovac 1862 — Zagreb 1940); Military Governor of MGG/S Serbia, (1 January — 6 July 1916)[9] buried at Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb, Yugoslavia; 5th Count, 1st Graf;[4]
  • 6) Johann Gaudenz Peter Dietegan, (*Malans 4.3.1866-Zagreb 11.8.1941), married (Vienna 17.4.1899) Marie v. Liebenberg de Zsittin (Königsberg 1876-), daughter of Adolf von Liebenberg; lived in Salzburg. 6th Comte, 2nd Graf;[4]
  • 7) (His Excellency Monseignor) Francesco/Franjo/Franz Emil Dietegan (Karlovac/Karlstadt 15.1.1872–27.10.1967), Auxiliary Bishop[10] of Zagreb/Agram, Yugoslavia, 1926–1967; critic of attempts to reconcile Catholic doctrine with evolution;[11] 7th Count, 3rd Graf;
  • 8) (Dr.) Hans-Wolf Wolf Eugen Rudolf (Malans 17.5.1887–1959), I.C.R.C.; married (Bern, 8.6.1895) Marguerite Freiin v. Salis-Soglio, daughter of Ferdinand Freiherr von Salis-Soglio by Elizabeth v. Muralt; 8th Count, 4th Graf;
  • 9) Franz Ferdinand Rudolf Dietegan (Samedan 9.8.1921 - New York 24.1.2000), of West Caldwell, New Jersey; married (Zurich 19.5.1951) Evelyne Patricia Iselin (17.04.1926-), daughter of Henry Iselin of Hewlett Harbor, L.I., a former senior partner of Rusch & Company Factors in New York;[12] 9th Count, 5th Graf;[13][14]
  • 10) Johann-Gaudenz Ulrich Dietegan (born 1936, Samedan), married Isabelle v. Graffenreid; 10th Count, 6th Graf. Swiss diplomat and ambassador.

Motto: Non auro sed virtute.

'Nächster Anwärter auf den Grafentitel' (next contender): Friedrich Heinrich Dietegan (born 1968).

Ancestor table of present Comte

Some of Gaudenz de Salis' ancestors

Johann-Gaudenz Ulrich Dietegan

Hans-Wolf Eugen Rudolf v. Salis-Seewis

(Malans 1887-)


Johann Ulrich Dietegan Freiherr v. Salis-Seewis

(Chur 1838-Malans 1921)


Johann-Jakob Freiherr v. Salis-Seewis

(Zurich 1800-Chur 1881)


Anna Barbara v. Jenatsch

(Chur 1800–1856)


Klara Maria Freiin v. Salis-Soglio

(Turin 1855-Munich 1933),[15]


Peter Rudolf v. Salis-Soglio, of Genua

(Chur 1827-)


Anna Luise v. Muralt

(Bevers 2.2.1830-Turin 1889)


Marguerite Freiin v. Salis-Soglio

(Bern 1895-),[15]


Ferdinand Freiherr v. Salis-Soglio, of Paspels

(Chur 1864-)


Anton v. Salis-Soglio

(Chur 1819–1901)


Henriette Margerete v. Planta-Reichenau

(Chur 1823–1893)


Elisabeth Marie Esther v. Muralt

(Bern 1875-),[15]


Alex Ludwig Gotlieb v. Muralt (Bern 1829–1909)

Natalie v. Tavel (Bern 1836–1903)

References

  1. Photographien der Bilder von Vorfahren der Familie von Salis, Chur, 1884.
  2. ("...und nach ihm für alle jene Mitglieder seiner Familie, denen auf Grund des franz. Diploms die Führung des Titels Comte zukommen wird mit dem Hinzufügen, dass seine evtl. Nachkommen und seine Geschwister sich des Frhrntitels und derselben Namensschreibweise prävalieren dürfen," Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Gräfliche Häuser, Band XIX, 2009)
  3. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Band 146, Gräfliche Häuser XIX, 2009, XXVIII + 619 Seiten, 50 Bilder davon 11 farbig, 37 Genealogien. Folgende Familien sind enthalten: Buquoy, Bussche-Ippenburg gen. v. Kessell, Calice, Ceschi, Dezasse de Petit-Verneuil, Eltz, Finck v. Finckenstein, Flemming-Benz, Galen, Groeben, Hohenthal, Korff, Lanjus v. Wellenburg, Lanjus v. Wellenburg (2007, 2009), Lüttichau, Maltzan und Maltzahn v. Plessen, Manzano, Matuschka (Matuschka Greiffenclau), Mengersen, Mengersen-Robiano, Nostitz, Piatti, Plettenberg, Praschma, Preysing, Rantzau, Reischach, Rex, Salis, Saurma, Seherr-Thoß, Spee, Strachwitz, Sztáray, Wedel, Wolff Metternich, Zedlitz u. Trützschler; ISBN 978-3-7980-0846-5, pages 396 & 428.
  4. Stammbaumes der Familie von Salis von Anton von Sprecher, Chur, 1941
  5. Johann Gaudenz von Salis–Seewis und Johann Heinrich Füßli in ihren Briefen, hrsg. v. Felix Humm. Huber, Bern u.a. 1976.
  6. Adolf Frey, 'J. Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis', Frauenfeld, 1889.
  7. Mitrović, Andrej (2007). Serbia's Great War, 1914–1918. Purdue University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9781557534767.
  8. Tanner, Marcus (2001). Croatia: A Nation Forged in War. Yale University Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780300091250.
  9. Artigas, Mariano; Glick, Thomas F.; Martínez, Rafael A (2006). Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902. JHU Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780801883897.
  10. New York Times, June 27, 1982
  11. Der Grafliche Hauser, Band XI [volume 11], Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331-356). Link to description of the above book.
  12. New York Times, 26 January 2000
  13. Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 1910, Justus Perthes, Gotha.

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