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Counts de Salis-Soglio and Comtes de Salis-Seewis

Peter, 1st Count de Salis-Soglio (1675-1749)
  • Counts de Salis-Soglio (Vienna, 1748).

(aka Grafen von Salis-Soglio).

Important forefather, uncle and leading mercenary fighter: Rudolfus Longus à Salis. Governor of Pavia for the Duke of Milan, wounded at Novara, 1513, and killed at Marignano, 1515.

See Count de Salis-Soglio.


  • Comtes de Salis-Seewis (Versailles, 1777)
  • Grafen von Salis-Seeiws (Vienna, 1915). See Count de Salis-Seewis.

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 (11/11/1919) and military governor of Serbia in 1916, was created Graf, with remainder to those who would also become Comte, dated Vienna, 16 March 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.