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Solms-Wildenfels was a minor county around

Wildenfels Wildenfels () is a municipality in Germany, Landkreis Zwickau in Saxony. It is situated 9 km southeast of Zwickau. The construction of Wildenfels castle was begun before 1200 by the lords of Wildenfels. Between 1440 and 1706 it was a fief w ...

in south-western

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. The

House of Solms A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

had its origins at

Solms Solms () is a town west of Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany with around 13,500 inhabitants. In the constituent community of Burgsolms once stood the ancestral castle of the Counts and Princes of House of Solms, Solms. Geography Lo ...

, Hesse.

History

Solms-Wildenfels was a partition of

Solms-Baruth Solms-Baruth was a Lower Lusatian state country, from 16th century until 1945, ruled by the Baruth branch of the House of Solms. History The House of Solms had its origins at Solms, Hesse, and ruled several of the many minor states of the Holy R ...

. In 1741 it was partitioned between itself and Solms-Sachsenfeld, and reintegrated that county upon its extinction in 1896. Solms-Wildenfels was mediatised to

Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt () was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a younger branch of the House of Hesse. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse among the four sons of Landgrave Philip I. ...

in 1806.

Counts of Solms-Wildenfels (1696–1806)

* Otto Henry William (1696–1741) * Henry Charles (1741–46) * Frederick Magnus I (1746–1801) * Frederick Magnus II (1801–06)

Mediatized Counts of Solms-Wildenfels

* Friedrich Magnus II (1806–1857) * Friedrich Magnus III (1857–1883) * Friedrich Magnus IV (1883–1910) * Friedrich Magnus V (1910–1945), married

Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg Marie Antoinette, Princess of Schwarzburg (; 7 February 18984 November 1984) was the eldest child of Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg. Early life and background Marie Antoinette was born at Großharthau, Kingdom of Saxony, the first child of Si ...

, who presumably became the head of the

House of Schwarzburg The House of Schwarzburg was one of the oldest noble families of Thuringia, which is in modern-day central Germany. Upon the death of Prince Friedrich Günther in 1971, a claim to the headship of the house passed under Semi-Salic primogeniture t ...

in 1971. Following her brother's death in 1971 in the House of Schwarzburg became extinct in the male line. However the Schwarzburg principalities operated under

Semi-Salic The Salic law ( or ; ), also called the was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by Clovis, the first Frankish King. The name may refer to the Salii, or "Salian Franks", but this is debated. The written text is in Late L ...

primogeniture which means that in the event of the extinction of all male dynasts, as happened with the death of Prince Friedrich Günther, females can inherit.House Laws of Schwarzburg
/ref> * Friedrich Magnus VI (1945-) : upon

his mother ''His Mother'' is a 1912 American silent film produced by Kalem Company. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with Gene Gauntier and Jack J. Clark in the leading roles. It was one of more than a dozen films produced by the Kalem Company filmed in Ir ...

's death in 1984, Friedrich Magnus VI inherited a claim to the headship of the

under semi-Salic law.James, John ''Almanach de Gotha, Volume I'', 2013.

References

House of Solms 1696 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire {{Germany-hist-stub