Count de Salis-Seewis

Le Comte de Salis-Seewis, c. 2005.

Founder of the Salis-Seewis line: Ritter Dietegan Magnus à Salis (1473-1531).

Count de Salis-Seewis / Comte or Graf v. Salis-Seewis / Graf Salis-Seewis / Graf Salis / Gräfin von Salis / Graf von Salis Primogenitive Comte (count/graf) created at Versailles, France, on 1 February 1777. And Graf (to follow^[1] the Count), created Vienna, Austria, 16 March 1915.

Parisian engraving of the soldier-statesman-poet, J. Gaudenz (1762-1834), as a young officer.

Johann Gaudenz Gubert, 2nd Comte de Salis-Seewis. Soldier, statesman, and lieder writer.

Comtes de Salis-Seewis (1777)

Johann Ulrich Dietegan (1740-1815), married (1760) Freiin Jakobea von Salis-Bothmar (1741–1791); 1st Count;
Johann Gaudenz Gubert, (Malans 1762 - Malans 1834), poet, married Ursina von Pestalozzi; 2nd Count;
Johann-Ulrich Dietegan (Chur 1794– Modena 1844), married Barbara von Cleric; 3rd Comte;
(k.k. 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 v. V.-D. by Julie Tompa de Horsova; 4th Count;

Arms of Johann Gaudenz v Salis-Seewis : Salis-Seewis impaling, or quartered with, Salis-Bothmar. From a 1889 book cover, Adolf Frey's biography of the poet.

Bothmar, Malans, engraving from Adolf Frey's book, 1889.

Comtes de Salis-Seewis (1777) and Grafen von Salis-Seewis (1915)

(Feldzeugmeister) Johann Ulrich Gaudenz Dietegen^[2] (Karstadt 1862-Zagreb 1940); military governor of Serbia, buried Mirogoju, 5th Count, 1st Graf;
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;
(His Excellency Monseignor) Francesco/Franjo/Franz Emil Dietegan (Karlovac/Karlstadt 1872-1967), Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb/Agram, Yugoslavia, 1926-1967; 7th Count, 3rd Graf;
(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 Frhr. v. Salis-Soglio by Elizabeth v. Muralt; 8th Count, 4th Graf;
Franz Ferdinand Rudolf Dietegan (Samedan 1921 - New York 2000), married (Zurich 19.5.1951) E. P. Iselin; 9th Count, 5th Graf;^[3]
Johann-Gaudenz Ulrich Dietegan (Samedan 1936-), married Isabelle v. Graffenreid; 10th Count, 6th Graf.

Motto: Non auro sed virtute.

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

Portraits of some of the Salis-Seewis

Dietegan, son of Dietegan Magnus: Envoy & Eques Auratus, Dietegan Freiherr à Salis (1510 or 1526-1590), Landvogt of Castels.
Colonel Dietegan (1651-1697 or 1679).
Johann Gaudenz Dietegan v. Salis-Seewis (1684-1751), Bundslandammann. Father of 1st Comte de Salis-Seewis.
Katharina à Clericis, from 1734, wife to J.G.D. v. Salis-Seewis (1684-1751). Mother of 1st Comte.
1st Comte. Johann Ulrich Dietegan (1740-1815).
Jakobea v. Salis-Bothmar (1741-1791), wife to J.U.D. (1740-1815).
Ursina à Pestalozzi, wife to the poet Johann Gaudenz Gubert (1762-1834).
2nd Comte. General. Statesman. Dichter. The Poet. Johann Gaudenz Gubert (1762-1834).
4th Comte. Johann Gaudenz Gubert Dietegen (1824-1873).
Freiherr John Gaudenz Dietegan v. Salis-Seewis (1825-1886), of Malans, Member of the Swiss Federal Council. Nephew of the 3rd Comte. Son of Johann Jacob (Zurich 1800- Chur 1881). Uncle of the 8th Comte.
Gubert Abraham Dietegan (Malans 1835-1899), of the Ruchenberg, Malans. Lt. in Sicilian service. Married Agathe Maria Sprecher von Bernegg (Luzein, 1842-1903). Ancestor of the next in line.

Brothers of the Poet

Gubert Dietegan Abraham (1767-1840), a son (2nd?) of 1st Comte.
Hercules Dietegan (1770-1847), a son (3rd?) of 1st Comte.
Johann Ulrich Dietegan (1777-1817), chroniker, a son (4th?) of the 1st Comte.

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)	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-)	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-)	Alex Ludwig Gotlieb v. Muralt (Bern 1829-1909)
			Natalie v. Tavel (Bern 1836-1903)

References

↑ (...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)
↑ http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/biog/salisseewis.html
↑ 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.