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Louis Otto, Prince of Salm

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Louis Prince

Died
  
November 23, 1738

Ludwig Otto, Furst zu Salm (Louis Otto, Prince of Salm; 24 October 1674 – 23 November 1738) was the Count of Salm-Salm from 1710, the only son of the Imperial chamberlain (Reichskammerer) Carl Theodor Otto, fuerst von Salm (1645–1710) and Luise Maria Pfalzgrafin bei Rhein zu Simmern (1647-1679).

Ludwig Otto married Albertine Johannette, Princess of Nassau-Hadamar (5 July 1679 – 11 June 1716) on 20 July 1700. She was a great-granddaughter of John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, brother of William the Silent. The couple had three children:

  • Dorothea Franziska Agnes (21 January 1702 – 25 January 1751); married Nicholas Leopold, count of Salm-Hoogstraten and they became the Prince and Princess of Salm-Salm, had eighteen children and have many descendants including Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm and Princess Isabella of Croy.
  • Elisabeth Alexandrine Felicite Charlotte Gotfriede (21 July 1704 – 27 December 1739); married Claude Lamoral, 6th Prince of Ligne and had issue.
  • Christine Anna Luise Oswaldine (29 April 1707 – 19 August 1775); married Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg, son of Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and Eleonore of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort; their eldest daughter Viktoria married the French prince de Soubise.

    • Ludwig Otto died in Anholt castle in 1738. With his death the male line of descendants (altfurstliche Linie Salm) came to an end, since Ludwig Otto had no son as heir.

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