Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio


Jerome de Salis, Count de Salis-Soglio, DL, JP, FRS, Illustris et Magnificus, was an Anglo-Grison noble and Irish landowner.

Life

Count Jerome was the eldest surviving son of Peter De Salis and his third wife, Ann, daughter of Bundespresident Antonio de Salis. His paternal grandfather was Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis.
Born in Chiavenna on 14 February and baptised at Soglio on 17 February 1771, he died on 2 October 1836 at Dawley Lodge, Harlington, and lies buried in the ancient church of St Peter and St Paul, Harlington, London, which was at the time in Middlesex.
, April 8 to April 11, 1809, announces grant of Royal Licence to Jerome De Salis, and his descendants, to assume & use title of Count in UK.
In a letter of 1830 he proposed spending the winter in Madeira whence:
De Salis was a friend of Samuel Wix, the high-churchman, and paid for his Reflections concerning the expediency of a council of the Church of England and the Church of Rome being holden, with a view to accommodate religious differences to be translated into several languages.

Family

De Salis was married three times. His first marriage was to Sophia, daughter of Admiral Francis William Drake, himself the brother of Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th and last Baronet. The couple were married on 12 August 1797 at Shirburn Castle, and had:
Four years after Sophia's death in 1803, De Salis married Penelope, daughter of Dr. Robert Freeman, MD, of Uxbridge, on 14 March 1807 in Stoke Poges, and had one daughter:
Penelope died shortly after the birth of their daughter. A little over two years later, De Salis married Henrietta , daughter of Rt. Rev. William Foster, DD, who was chaplain to the Irish House of Commons, and then variously Bishop of Cork and Ross; Kilmore; and of Clogher. Harriet was the sister of John Leslie Foster, and a second cousin to one or two of the children of Lady Bess Foster. Harriet's father was the brother of John Foster, of Collon, county Louth, Baron Oriel, and last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. The marriage took place on 10 May 1810 in St. Thomas's, Dublin. The couple had nine children.

Early life residences

Children

Sons-in-law and daughters-in-law

Some events

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Pictures of Jerome, his three wives, a relevant family book, and one of his crests

Ancestry

Jerome De Salis
Peter De Salis
Jerome de Salis
Peter de Salis-Soglio
Jerome De Salis
Peter De Salis
Jerome de Salis
Margherita v. Salis-Soglio
Jerome De Salis
Peter De Salis
Hon. Mary Fane
Viscount Fane
Jerome De Salis
Peter De Salis
Hon. Mary Fane
Mary Stanhope
Jerome De Salis
Anna v. Salis-Soglio
Giovanni de Salis-Soglio
Battista de Salis-Soglio
Jerome De Salis
Anna v. Salis-Soglio
Giovanni de Salis-Soglio
Anna de Salis-Samedan
Jerome De Salis
Anna v. Salis-Soglio
Katherina Barbara de Salis-Soglio
Rudolfo de Salis-Soglio
Jerome De Salis
Anna v. Salis-Soglio
Katherina Barbara de Salis-Soglio
Maria Magdalena de Salis-Rietberg

His brother

Jerome's younger brother: His Excellency, Count Giovanni, aka Graf Johann von Salis, aka John, Count de Salis-Soglio-Bondo of Bondo, Bregaglia; schloss Sulzberg, San Gallen ; houses in Monstein and Avers; and the grafliche Salis house in Chur, :de:Oberer Spaniöl|L'Obere Spaniöl. He converted to Catholicism in Vienna, February 1813. Nearly 20 years later he married Grafin Emilia Elisabetha 'Luisa', daughter of Feldzugmeister Graf Franz-Simon Fidelis Rudolf von Salis-Zizers, in Coire/Chur, July 1831 or 1832. She became a 'Sternkreuz-Ordens-Dame & Oberhofmeisterin' of the Modena Archduchesses Thereses and Beatrice von Oesterreich-Este. Educated in Chur and Chiavenna and then studying law at Göttingen, John was briefly at the London bar but went back to the Grisons to try to right the wrongs of Napoleon in the Three Leagues and Valtelline. After that he was a Grisons statesman: Bundespräsident of the Gotteshausbund in 1811, 1813 and 1817; Landammann of the Bregaglia-Sopra-Porta 1816–26. Later he was an Austrian Privy Councilor and from 1836 Minister, 'grand-maitre de la cour', Principal Chamberlain of Their Royal Highnesses the Archdukes Francis IV and Francis V of Modena. A reactionary, supporter of the Ultras, and one of the founders of the 'comite de Waldshut', he was a correspondent with people like von Haller and :de:Ludwig Senfft von Pilsach|Senft-Pilsach.