Solms-Braunfels

County (Principality) of Solms-Braunfels
Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Solms-Braunfels
State of the Holy Roman Empire
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Coat of arms

Capital Braunfels
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Partitioned from Solms 1258
 • Partitioned to create
    Ottenstein
1325
 • Partitioned to create Lich 1409
 • Partitioned to create
    Greifenstein and Hungen
1592
 • Raised to principality 1742
 •  Mediatised to Austria,
    Hesse, Prussia and
    Württemberg		 1806
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602–75), wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632)
Carl of Solms-Braunfels (1812–1875), Founder of New Braunfels, Texas

Solms-Braunfels was a County with Imperial immediacy in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany.

Solms-Braunfels was a partition of Solms, ruled by the House of Solms, and was raised to a Principality of the Holy Roman Empire in 1742. Solms-Braunfels was partitioned between: itself and Solms-Ottenstein in 1325; itself and Solms-Lich in 1409; and itself, Solms-Greifenstein and Solms-Hungen in 1592. Solms-Braunfels was mediatised to Austria, Hesse-Darmstadt, Prussia and Württemberg in 1806.

Rulers of Solms-Braunfels

Counts of Solms-Braunfels (1258–1742)[1][2]

  • Henry III, Count 1258–1312 (died 1312), elder son of Henry II, Count of Solms
    • Bernhard I, Count 1312–1349 (died 1349), second son of Henry III
      • Otto I, Count 1349–1410 (died 1410)
        • Bernhard II, Count 1409–1459 (died 1459)
          • Otto II, Count 1459–1504 (1426-1504)
            • Bernhard III, Count 1504–1547 (1468-1547)
              • Philipp, Count 1547–1581 (1494-1581)
                • Konrad, Count 1581–1592 (1540-1592)
                  • Johann Albrecht I, Count 1592–1623 (1563-1623); his third daughter was Amalia, wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
                    • Konrad Ludwig, Count 1623–1635 (1595-1635)
                    • Johann Albrecht II, Count 1635–1648 (1599-1647)
                  • Wilhelm I, Count of Solms-Greifenstein (1570-1635)
                    • Wilhelm II, Count of Solms-Greifenstein (1609-1676)
                      • Wilhelm Moritz, Count of Solms-Greifenstein 1676-1720, and of Solms-Braunfels 1693-1720 (1651-1720)

Princes of Solms-Braunfels (1742–1806)[3]

Mediatized Princes of Solms-Braunfels

  • Ferdinand Wilhelm Ernst, 2nd Prince of Solms-Braunfels 1761-1783 (1721 - 1783)
    • Wilhelm Christian Karl, 3rd Prince 1783-1837, mediatized 1806 (1759 - 1837)
      • Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand, 4th Prince 1837-1873 (1797-1873)
    • Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Solms-Braunfels (1770-1814)
      • Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich of Solms-Braunfels (1801-1868)
        • Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm, 5th Prince 1873-1880 (1835-1880)
        • Georg Friedrich Bernhard, 6th Prince 1880-1891 (1836-1891)
          • Georg Friedrich Victor, 7th Prince 1891-1970 (1890-1970)

The princely House of Solms-Braunfels became extinct with Georg Friedrich Victor in 1970. Braunfels Castle was inherited by the last Prince's son-in-law, the Count of Oppersdorff who changed the family name in 1969 to Oppersdorff-Solms-Braunfels.


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1 Part of the Three Bishoprics.   2 Nomeny after 1737.   3 without Reichstag seat.   4 until 1736.   5 Joined Swiss Confederacy in 1515.

Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon
Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish     ·     Unencircled territories

References

  1. ↑ http://genealogy.euweb.cz/solms/solms1.html
  2. ↑ http://genealogy.euweb.cz/solms/solms2.html
  3. ↑ http://genealogy.euweb.cz/solms/solms3.html
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