De Salis Explained

De Salis is the surname of an old noble family from Grisons, Switzerland.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

People with the surname

They were one of the most influential families of the Three Leagues. At first the family appears in Soglio, Switzerland with ser Rodolfus de Salice de Solio between 1285 and 1293.

Titles given to the family include Count de Salis-Soglio and Count de Salis-Seewis.

De Salis (naturalized British in 1731)

(Counts of the Holy Roman Empire from 1748, with Royal Licence to use in the UK from 1809. Surname of Fane added in 1809 and 1835).^[10]

• Sir Cecil Fane De Salis (1857–1948), KCB, chairman Middlesex County Council (1919–1924).
• Charles de Salis (1736–1781), Count. Unsuccessful candidate for Reading 1761. Died and buried in Hyères.
• Charles Fane de Salis, Bishop of Taunton.
• Rev. Count Henry Jerome de Salis MA, DD, FRS, FSA, (1740–1810), Divine: Rector of St. Antholin and Vicar of Wing, Buckinghamshire.
• Rev. Count Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, (born Pisa 16.2.1828, died Virginia Water 18.2.1915).
• Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis (1709–1794), FRS, sometime British Resident in the Grisons and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
• Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio (1771–1836), DL, JP, FRS, Comes SRI, Illustris et Magnificus.
• John, Count de Salis-Soglio-Bondo (1776–1855). Grison statesman, and Minister to Archdukes of Modena.
• John Bernard Philip Humbert de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio, (1947–2014), TD, ICRC delegate, etc.
• Henry Rodolph de Salis (1866–1936), author Bradshaw's Canals & Navigable Rivers of England & Wales, 1904, 1918 and 1928.
• John Eugène de Salis, 8th Count de Salis-Soglio, Lt. Col. Irish Guards.
• Sir John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio (1864–1939), KCMG, a British diplomat.
• John Francis William, 6th Count de Salis-Soglio (1825–1871), numismatist and a British diplomat.
• Leopold Fabius Dietegan Fane De Salis (1816–1898), New South Wales politician and Australian pastoralist.
• Peter, 3rd Count de Salis, soldier and landowner. Governor of the Valtelline. Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
• Peter John Fane de Salis, 5th Count de Salis-Soglio, soldier; landowner in counties Limerick and Armagh; Grand Prior of the Venerable Irish Langue of the Order of St. John.
• Count Pierre de Salis (1827–1919), painter and engraver. Curator of Neuchâtel's art museum.
• General Rodolph de Salis, (1811–1880), CB, Colonel of the 8th Hussars.
• Rodolph Fane De Salis (1854–1931). Civil engineer. Chairman of Singer Motor Company, Coventry, and Grand Junction Canal Co.; President of the Canal Association.
• William Andreas Salicus Fane De Salis (1812–1896), a businessman, colonialist, and barrister.
• Admiral Sir William Fane De Salis, KBE, MVO, RN, (1858–1939).
• See Counts de Salis-Soglio.
• See Comtes de Salis-Seewis.

Von Salis (Swiss branch)

• Carl Ulisses von Salis-Marschlins, (1762–1818), was a naturalist.
• Daniel von Salis-Soglio (1826–1919).
• Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, (1762–1834), poet and lieder writer, soldier-statesman, hereditary French Comte.
• Hortensia von Salis-Maienfeld (1659–1715), Grisons scholar and pre-feminist.
• Meta von Salis-Marschlins (1855–1929), Swiss feminist and historian. Sold Schloss Marschlins.
• Ulysses von Salis-Marschlins (1728–1800), Grisons statesman.
• Philipp von Boeselager and Georg von Boeselager. Sons of Maria-Theresia (Freiin) von Salis-Soglio (1890–1968) of Schloss Gemünden.

Salis

• Louis Rodolphe Salis (1851–1897), creator of the Chat Noir in Montmartre. His father came from the Val Bregaglia.

Notes and References

1. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Band 146, Gräfliche Häuser XIX, 2009, XXVIII + 619 Seiten, 50 Bilder davon 11 farbig, 37 Genealogien. Folgende Familien sind enthalten: Buquoy, Bussche-Ippenburg gen. v. Kessell, Calice, Ceschi, Dezasse de Petit-Verneuil, Eltz, Finck v. Finckenstein, Flemming-Benz, Galen, Groeben, Hohenthal, Korff, Lanjus v. Wellenburg, Lanjus v. Wellenburg (2007, 2009), Lüttichau, Maltzan und Maltzahn v. Plessen, Manzano, Matuschka (Matuschka Greiffenclau), Mengersen, Mengersen-Robiano, Nostitz, Piatti, Plettenberg, Praschma, Preysing, Rantzau, Reischach, Rex, Salis, Saurma, Seherr-Thoß, Spee, Strachwitz, Sztáray, Wedel, Wolff Metternich, Zedlitz u. Trützschler; .
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=KkFNAAAAcAAJ&dq=Count+de+Salis&pg=PA1096 Burke's Peerage, 1852
3. Der Grafliche Hauser, Band XI [volume 11], Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pp. 331–356).
4. Burke's Peerage, Foreign Noblemen / Foreign Titles sections: 1839, 1851, 1936, 1956, etc. and Debrett's Peerage, Foreign Titles section 1888, etc.
5. Fane de Salis MSS
6. De Salis Family : English Branch, by Rachel Fane De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1934.
7. From Home Office notes made 21 May 1930 by A. J. Eagleston: 'Count de Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, created 12th March, 1748.Date of Licence.—4th April, 1809.Grantee.—Jerome de Salis.Limitation of Licence.—Limited to the grantee and those of his family being subjects of the Realm.Remarks.—By origin the de Salis are a Swiss noble family from the Grisons. In the early 18th century, Peter de Salis was Imperial Ambassador in England, and was given the Countship, presumably for his diplomatic services. His son was naturalized in England.'
8. [Burke's Landed Gentry]
9. Stammbaumes der Familie von Salis von Anton von Sprecher, Chur, 1941
10. Royal License and Authority as published in the London Gazette, on 11 December 1835