Dorothea
zu Solms-Laubach
formerly Solms aka Solms-Sonnenwalde
Born in Heiliges Römisches Reich
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Friedrich Magnus (Solms) von Solms-Laubach
and Agnes Wied
Sister of
Anna von Mansfeld [half], Johann Georg (Solms-Laubach) zu Solms-Laubach, Elisabeth (Solms-Laubach) zu Solms-Laubach, Otto van Solms Laubach and Anna (Solms-Laubach) von Erbach
Wife of
Heinrich XVI (Reuß) Reuß zu Gera
— married
6 Jan 1566 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 47
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Mar 2014
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Biography
Dorothea Solms was a member of the aristocracy in Germany.
Dorothea was the eldest daughter of Friedrich Magnus I, Graf zu Solms-Laubach, and his wife, Agnes zu Wied.[1] She was born 26 November 1547 a twin with her brother Johann Georg I,[1] though it isn't clear who was the elder twin, both being born about midday[2]
She married 6 January 1566, Heinrich XVI, Reuss von Plauen, Herr zu Gera at Zeitz, as his second wife.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Solms-Laubach, Rudolph zu, Geschichte des Grafen- und Fürstenhauses Solms, p. 230a (Frankfurt am Main : Adelmann,1865); digital images, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Düsseldorf (http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/content/titleinfo/8208673 : accessed 21 January 2020).
- ↑ Zeibich, Christoph Heinrich / Alberus, Erasmus: L. Christoph Heinrich Zeibichs, Pastoris und Superintendentens zu Baruth, Genealogische Tabellen, Uber das Uralte Reichs-Gräfliche Hauß Zu Solms, Von dessen ersten biß zu ietzigen Zeiten, Nebst beygefügten Historischen Erläuterungen, Vom ersten Ursprunge, glorieusen Fortgange, und merckwürdigen Fatis dieses Hohen Geschlechts. Am Ende wird, wegen des Stammhauses dieser Hohen, beygefügt D. Erasmi Alberi Kurtze Beschreibung der Wetteraw, Auch letzt gedachten Auctoris Leben, Berlin ; Wittenberg ; Zerbst, 1709
- Ancestry.com. Die Reussen : Genealogie des gesamthauses Reuss, älterer und jüngerer Linie sowie der ausgestorbenen Vogtslinien zu Weida, Gera und Plauen und der Burg- grafen zu Meissen aus dem Hause Plauen. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Original data: Schmidt, Berthold. Die Reussen : Genealogie des gesamthauses Reuss, älterer und jüngerer Linie sowie der ausgestorbenen Vogtslinien zu Weida, Gera und Plauen und der Burg- grafen zu Meissen aus dem Hause Plauen.. Schleiz: F. Webers Nachfolger, 1903.
- Raimar, Wolfgang. Ahnentafel von König Ludwig II von Bayern. Neustadt an der Aisch: Verlag Degener, 1997.
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Solms-11 and Van Solms Laubach-4 appear to represent the same person because: same years for birth and death
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