Solms-Laubach

County of Solms-Laubach
Grafschaft Solms-Laubach
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1544–1676 1696–1806
Coat of arms
Capital		Laubach
Government		Principality
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Partitioned from S-Lich	1544
•	Partitioned to create     Solms-Sonnenwalde	1561
•	Partitioned to create     S-Baruth & S-Rödelheim	1607
•	Partitioned to create     Solms-Sonnenwalde	1627
•	Annexed to Solms-Baruth	1676–96
•	Mediatised to Hesse	1806
Preceded by Succeeded by Solms-Lich Grand Duchy of Hesse

Solms-Laubach was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The House of Solms had its origins at Solms, Hesse.

Solms-Laubach was originally created as a partition of Solms-Lich. Solms-Laubach partitioned between itself and Solms-Sonnenwalde 1561; between itself, Solms-Baruth and Solms-Rödelheim 1607; and between itself and Solms-Sonnenwalde 1627. Solms-Laubach inherited Solms-Sonnenwalde in 1615. With the death of Count Charles Otto in 1676, it was inherited by Solms-Baruth and recreated as a partition in 1696. Solms-Laubach was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806.

Laubach Castle

Counts of Solms-Laubach

First creation: 1544–1676

• Frederick Magnus I (1544–61)
• John George (1561–1600)
• Albert Otto I (1600–10)
• Albert Otto II (1610–56)
• Charles Otto (1656–76)

Second creation: 1696–1806

• Frederick Ernest (1696–1723)
• Christian Augustus (1723–84), with...
  • Frederick Magnus II (1723–38)
• Frederick Louis Christian (1784–1806)

Mediatized

• Friedrich Ludwig Christian, 5th Count 1806(Mediatized)-1822 (1769-1822)
  • Otto, 6th Count 1822-1872 (1799-1872)
    • Friedrich, 7th Count 1872-1900 (1833-1900)
      • Otto, 8th Count 1900-1904 (1860-1904)
        • Georg, 9th Count 1904-1969 (1899-1969)
          • Otto, 10th Count 1969-1973 (1926-1973)
            • Karl, 11st Count 1973–present (b.1963)
              • August, Hereditary Count of Solms-Laubach (b.1994)
            • Count Gustav (b.1965)
              • Count Oscar (b.2008)
            • Count Franz (b.1971)
        • Count Friedrich (1902-1991)
          • Count Ernst (b.1939)
            • Count Stefan (b.1976)
      • Count Reinhard (1872-1937)
        • Count Hans (1927-2009)
          • Count Georg (b.1972)
    • Count Ernst (1837-1908)
      • Count Ernstotto (1890-1977)
        • Count Friedrich-Ernst (b.1940)
          • Count Moritz (b.1980)
          • Count Philipp (b.1985)

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References

1. ↑ Online Gotha - Solms

• Rudolph zu Solms-Laubach: Geschichte des Grafen- und Fürstenhauses Solms. Adelmann, Frankfurt am Main 1865

Upper Rhenish Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire
Ecclesiastical	Basel Fulda Hersfeld Metz1 Odenheim–Bruchsal Prüm Speyer Straßburg Toul1 Verdun1 Weißenburg Worms
Secular	Bar Heitersheim Hersfeld Hesse Darmstadt Homburg Kassel Marburg Rheinfels Isenburg-Birstein Kaiserslautern Lorraine2 Nassau Idstein Ottweiler Saarbrücken Usingen Weilburg Salm Kyrburg Salm Savoy Simmern Solms-Braunfels Sponheim3 Veldenz / Lautereck Waldeck3 Zweibrücken
Counts and Lords	With Imp. Diet seats Hanau Lichtenberg Münzenberg4 Isenburg Birstein Büdingen Büdingen-Birstein Königstein Mainz Stolberg Kriechingen Leiningen Dagsburg Hardenburg Westerburg Salm Grehweiler Grumbach Solms Hohensolms Laubach Lich Rödelheim Wetterau Wittgenstein Berleburg Wittgenstein Without Bretzenheim Dagstuhl Falkenstein Isenburg Meerholz Wächtersbach Mensfelden Olbrück Reipoltskirchen Salm-Dhaun Wartenberg
Cities	Décapole Colmar Hagenau Kaisersberg Landau Mühlhausen5 Münster im Elsaß Oberehnheim Rosheim Schlettstadt Türkheim Weißenburg Others Frankfurt Friedberg Metz Speyer Straßburg Toul Verdun Wetzlar Worms
1 Part of the Three Bishoprics.   2 Nomeny after 1737.   3 without Reichstag seat.   4 until 1736.   5 Joined Swiss Confederacy in 1515. Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish     ·     Unencircled territories