John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis-Soglio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis-Soglio

British soldier; residual Anglo-Irish landowner; Count of the Holy Roman Empire; Knight of Malta

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1891

Place of Birth: Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1949

Profession: diplomat, archivist, fencer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis-Soglio

  • Lt.
  • Colonel John (Jean) Eugène de Salis, 8th Count de Salis, FRGS, Graf v.
  • Salis-Soglio, (*Brussels 4 October 1891–†London 12 June 1949), eldest son of Sir John Francis Charles de Salis, KCMG, CVO, 7th Count de Salis, of the Holy Roman Empire, of Lough Gur House, Monasteranenagh, Kilmallock, Co.
  • Limerick, and the Grisons, Switzerland. His mother, a descendant of Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot (of the House of Croÿ), Pierre-Paul Riquet and both Émilie Pellapra and Thérésa Tallien, whom his father had married in Brussels on 6 December 1890, was Hélène Marie de Riquet, Comtesse de Caraman-Chimay (Château de Ménars 18 August 1864 – Bruxelles 31 May 1902).
  • The eldest daughter of Marie Eugène Auguste de Riquet, Prince de Caraman-Chimay (Ménars 1847–Chimay 1881), (son of 17th Prince de Chimay), by Louise de Graffenried-Villars (1842–1901), she died aged 37, when John her eldest son was still only 10, a mere 13 days after the birth of her third son. De Salis succeeded his father 37 years later in 1939, in the meantime he had been made and given a Bailiff Grand Cross, Order of Malta; the Order of the Crown of Roumania; a Chevalier Legion of Honour; and a Montenegrin Military Medal/Silver medal for bravery (1918). He was educated at Jesuit Beaumont College and read modern history at Balliol College, Oxford 1910–1914, (4th class BA 1914, MA 1917). At Oxford he won the Officers' Training Corps' Company and Long Range Cups, and the Officers' Challenge Cup; was in the Snap-shooting team; won 2nd prize, Half-section Jumping, O.T.C.
  • v Cambridge; was in the Oxford University Fencing Club (Sabres) v.
  • Cambridge in 1913 and 1914.
  • The 1914 varsity match was held at Tassart's Salle D'Armes, Oxford Circus, London.
  • Tickets were 2/6.

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