Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen

Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen
Spouse(s)	Anna Magdalene of Hanau
Issue
Wild- and Rhinegrave John XI of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen
Father	John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen
Mother	Anna Catherine, Baroness of Criechingen
Born	13 October 1597(1597-10-13)
Died	6 October 1634(1634-10-06) (aged 36) Speyer

Otto Louis of Salm, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Kyrburg and Mörchingen (13 Octoner 1597 – 6 October 1634, Speyer) was a Swedish general during the Thirty Years' War. He was governor in the Alsace and Commander of the Swedish troops in the Upper Rhine. He died of the plague at Speyer and was buried in Strasbourg Cathedral.

His parents were John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen (1575–1623) and Anna Catherine, Baroness of Criechingen (d. 1638).

Married and issue

In August 1633 he married to Anna Magdalene of Hanau. She was the daughter of Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1569–1625) and Countess Maria Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1576–1605). She was also the widow of Lothar von Criechingen (d.1629) with whom she had a son: Francis Ernst III, Count of Criechingen (d. 1677).

With Otto Louis she had another son, Wild- and Rhinegrave John XI (born: 17 April 1638; died: 16 November 1688 in Flonheim, buried in the church of Kirn). He was born after his father's death. John XI married on 27 December 1669 Countess Palatine Elisabeth Johanna of Veldenz (born: 22 February 1653; died: 5 February 1718). They had no children. The line Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen died out with John XI's death.

References and sources

• Karl Wittich (1887) (in German). "Otto Ludwig, Wild- und Rheingraf". In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 24. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 730–734.
• This page is a translation of its German equivalent.

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Persondata
Name	Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen
Alternative names	Otto Ludwig Graf von Salm, Wild- und Rheingraf zu Kyrburg und Mörchingen (German)
Short description	Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War
Date of birth	13 October 1597
Place of birth
Date of death	6 October 1634
Place of death	Speyer