William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels


Wilhelm Christian Karl, 3rd Prince of Solms Braunfels was by succession an immediate Prince, then a nobleman and head of the Princely House of Solms-Braunfels, a Prussian major general and Hessian deputy.

Life

Family

William was a member of the Princely House of Solms-Braunfels. His grandfather Frederick William was the first Prince of Solms-Braunfels. His parents were the imperial colonel and lieutenant general of the United Provinces Ferdinand Wilhelm Ernst and Countess Sophie Christine Wilhelmine of Solms-Laubach. first daughter and second child of Christian August, Count of Solms-Laubach. Prussian Major General Frederick William was one of his younger brothers.
On 6 October 1792, he married Wild- und Rheingräfin Auguste of Salm-Grumbach half-sister of Friedrich, Prince of Salm-Horstmar. They had four children:
By his maitresse Anna Elisabeth Becker, whom he married morganatically once widower, he had three children who received patronymic Wilhelmi

Career

Ancestry

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