Category:Counts of Salis

The Tirano line of the house of Salis-Zizers continued down to Ulsses (*Tirano 22.10.1819-d. Esine 26.6.1893) and Teresa de Calvi (*Edolo 15.8.1826-Sondrio 12.7.1909), whose daughter Maria-Felicitas (Rita), (*Tirano 18.2.1852-d. 24.9.1925), married (Milan 1.9.1872) Dr. jur. Francesco de Sertoli (d. Milan 7.3.1916). In September 1910 and April 1911 the Italian Min. Genehmigung zur Annahme 'maritali nomine' des Contetitels und d. gemeinsamen Wappens, ubertragbar auf die mannlichen Nachkommen nach dem Rechte der Ersgeburt.
 * Count v. Salis-Zizers, created for Johannes/Giovanni (Freiherr) v.Salis-Zizers, of Tirano, by Emperor Leopold I of Hapsburg (Vienna, 26th August 1694).

Motto: Mihi sunt pro fructibus arma.

(aka Grafen von Salis-Soglio).
 * Count de Salis-Soglio (Vienna, 1748).

Johann Ulrich von Salis-Seewis (1740–1815), was created a (primogenitive) Comte (count) at Versailles, France, on 1 February 1777. The Salis-Seewis line was further ennobled in 1915, when the present (10th) Comte's second-cousin-once-removed (6th Graf), Johann Ulrich Gaudenz Dietegen (Karstadt 1862-Zagreb 1940), an Hapsburg Field-Marshall/Feldzeugmeister (11/11/1918) and military governor of Serbia in 1916, was created Graf, with remainder to those who would also become Comte, dated Vienna, 16 March 1915.
 * Count de Salis-Seewis (Versailles, 1777 & Vienna, 1915).

The last of the Croatian line of this family, the Field Marshall's youngest brother and another son of k.k. Hauptmann Gaudenz Graf Salis-Seewis by his wife Wilhelmine Vranyczany-Dobrinović, was His Excellency Monseignor Francesco/Franjo/Franz Emil Dietegan v. Salis-Seewis (Karlovac/Karlstadt 1872-1967), the Titular Bishop of Corico/Corycus/Coryciensis, and Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb/Agram, Yugoslavia, 1926-1967.

External Link

 * Croatian Wikipedia article on 5th Comte and 1st Graf v. Salis-Seewis.