Christine von Salm
Christine Katharina Countess of Salm (* May 1575 ; † December 31, 1627 ) was a Countess of Vaudémont by marrying Franz von Lothringen from 1597 and Duchess of Lorraine and Bar for five days in November 1625 . As the great-grandmother of the Roman-German Emperor Franz I Stephan , she is an ancestor of the Imperial House of Habsburg-Lothringen .
Life
Christine von Salm was born as the only daughter of Count Paul von Salm- Badenweiler (around 1535–1584) and his wife Maria Le Veneur de Tillières (1553–1600) in the obersalmic line of the then still Count House of Salm . Her great-great-uncle was the Renaissance general Niklas Graf Salm the Elder . Her brother Karl died in 1588. This moved Christine to first place in the succession of the County of Salm (Obersalm, French: Salm-en-Vosges ). On March 12, 1597, she married in Nancy Franz, the youngest son of the Lorraine Duke Charles III. Her mother-in-law became Claudia von Valois , the daughter of the French king Heinrich II and his wife Katharina, née von Medici . She had the following offspring with her husband, to whom she married half of the Upper Salm County of Salm as hereditary countess:
- Heinrich (* 1602; † 1611), Marquis de Hattonchatel
- Charles IV (* 1604; † 1675), Duke of Lorraine
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Henriette (* 1605; † 1660) ⚭
- 1621 Louis de Guise († 1631), Prince of Pfalzburg and Lixheim
- 1643 Charles Guasco Marchese de Sallerio , 1644 Imperial Prince of Pfalzburg and Lixheim
- 1649 Cristovão de Moura, Conde de Lumiares, son of Manuel de Moura , Marquês de Castelo Rodrigo
- 1652 Giuseppe Francesco de Grimaldi († 1693), Prince of Pfalzburg and Lixheim
- Nikolaus Franz (* 1609; † 1670), cardinal , then Duke of Lorraine
- Margarete (* 1615; † 1672), ⚭ 1632 Jean-Baptiste Gaston de Bourbon , Duke of Orléans
- Christine (* 1621; † 1622)
Her uncle (brother of the father), Count Anton von Salm , saved as the last abbot of the monastery Hornbach the relics of St Pirminius from the grip of the Reformation attached sovereign and worked 1556/57 as president of the Imperial Chamber at Speyer .
literature
- Victor de Saint-Mauris: Etude historiques sur l'ancienne Lorraine , Volume 2 (Vagner, Imprimeur-Libraire-Editeur, 1861), p. 76
Web links
- Christine Gräfin von Salm , genealogical data sheet in the portal geneall.net
- Christine von Salm , website in the portal de.rodovid.org
- Christine von Salm , genealogical data sheet in the portal geneagraphie.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. F2 and C2 in the family table Luxemburg 5 , website in the portal genealogy.euweb.cz
- ^ Franz Michael Reisser: History of the Austrian Monarchy , Volume 4, Karl Schaumburg und Kompagnie, Vienna 1802, p. 279 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Salm, Christine from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salm, Christine Countess of; Christine of Lorraine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobles, by marriage to Franz von Lothringen Countess of Vaudémont and Duchess of Lorraine and Bar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1575 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1627 |