De Salis is the surname of an old noble family from Grisons, Switzerland. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
De Salis is the surname of an old noble family from Grisons, Switzerland. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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.
(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).[ citation needed ] [10]
Viscount Fane was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 22 April 1718 for the politician and courtier Charles Fane. He was made Baron of Loughguyre, in the County of Limerick, at the same time, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Fane was the second son of Sir Henry Fane, only son of the Honourable George Fane, fifth son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He was succeeded by his son, the second Viscount. He was a politician and diplomat. The titles became extinct on his death in 1766, though his widow lived on until 1792, and the De Salis were later to add the name and arms of Fane to their own surname.
Soglio is a village and a former municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of the Grisons close to the border with Italy. It is now part of the municipality of Bregaglia.
Jérôme de Salis, 2nd Count de Salis-Soglio was a Count de Salis-Soglio. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and sometime British Resident in the Grisons. He was also known as Hieronimus, Gerolamo, Geronimo, Harry, Jerome the grandfather and Monsieur le Comte de Salis. He is the founder of the English branch of the de Salis family which produced a number of politicians, diplomats, officers and clerics.
Peter de Salis, 3rd Count de Salis was a soldier and official.
Henry Jerome de Salis, DD, FRS, FSA, was an English churchman. He was Rector of St. Antholin in the City of London and Vicar of Wing in Buckinghamshire. He was also known as: Revd Henry Jerome de Salis, MA; the Hon. & Rev. Henry Jerome De Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire; Dr. de Salis; Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, and, from 1809, Rev. Count Henry Jerome de Salis.
Jerome de Salis, Count de Salis-Soglio, DL, JP, FRS, Illustris et Magnificus, was an Anglo-Grison noble and Irish landowner.
Peter John Fane de Salis, (5th) Count de Salis-Soglio, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, DL, JP, G.C.J.J., K.R.E. was a mercenary soldier and landowner in Middlesex and the Irish counties Limerick and Armagh. He was Bailiff of the English Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Grand Prior of the Irish one. He was also an hereditary Knight of the Golden Spur/Eques Auratus and Papal Count Palatine of the Lateran.
John Francis William de Salis, 6th Count de Salis was a Count de Salis-Soglio, a British diplomat, and coin connoisseur.
William Andreas Salius Fane de Salis was a British businessman, colonialist, and barrister.
Marschlins Castle is a castle in the village of Igis of the municipality of Landquart of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
John Bernard Philip Humbert de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio, TD, John da Buri, Graf v. Salis-Soglio, ; SRI Comes, Illustris et Magnificus, was a Count de Salis-Soglio. He was a ICRC delegate and envoy; Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion (2000) of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Order of Malta with Swords, first ambassador of the Order to Thailand 1986–98, Cambodia 1993–98, president of its Swiss Association (1995-2000) and of CIOMAL, 2000–08; British soldier and lawyer; Valpolicella vigneron and hereditary Knight of the Golden Spur.
Count de Salis-Soglio is a continental title of nobility that was recognized in the United Kingdom for a Swiss family which became British Subjects when Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis, was naturalized by Private Act of Parliament in 1743.
Lt. Colonel John (Jean) Eugène de Salis, 8th Count de Salis, FRGS, Graf v. Salis-Soglio,, was a British soldier and diplomat.
Count de Salis-Seewis is a primogenitive title created in Versailles, France on 1 February 1777, while the title Graf was created in Vienna, Austria, 16 March 1915.
Leopold Fabius Dietegen Fane de Salis, was a Tuscan-born Australian pastoralist and politician.
Rodolph Fane De Salis,, FGS, AMICE, civil engineer who was a director and then chairman of the Singer Motor Company of Coventry; President of the Canal Association; the last chairman of the Grand Junction Canal Co.; and director of the North Staffordshire Railway, the Great Central Railway, and of the Coventry Canal.
Vice-Admiral Sir William Fane De Salis,, was a Royal Navy admiral during the early years of the First World War.
Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, was an English cleric and JP (Surrey), of Portnall Park, Virginia Water.
General Rodolph John Leslie Hibernicus De Salis, CB, OBE, Légion d'honneur, and Order of Medjidie was a soldier who fought at many major battles during the nineteenth century.
Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio was a Swiss military officer who in 1847 commanded the conservative Sonderbund alliance in the Sonderbund War.
