Friedrich Magnus VI, Count of Solms-Wildenfels


Friedrich Magnus VI, Count of Solms-Wildenfels is the head of the House of Solms-Wildenfels. Under Semi-Salic primogeniture, he could have a claim to the headship of the House of Schwarzburg through his mother, as heir to the principalities of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, as well as a claim to the extinct House of Godwin, as he is a descendant of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, through his second daughter.

Early life

He was born in Wildenfels in Saxony, the son of Friedrich Magnus V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels and his wife Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg.

Marriage

Prince Friedrich Magnus married first on 7 February 1948 at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, to Katharina Duerst, daughter of Harald Eduard Duerst and Käthe Saile. The couple were divorced in 1954 and remarried in 1966. Prince Friedrich Magnus married for a third time on 30 September 1994 at Bonn Gisela Ursula Maria Paroll.

Issue

Prince Friedrich Magnus has two sons, Prince Michael, born at Esslingen am Neckar 10 January 1949 and died 2006, and Prince Konstantin, born on 9 March 1950, who married 1st on 30 Mar 1973 Gabriele Schaessberg, and 2nd on 21 Mar 1994 Erica Krummacer, both marriages without issue.

Ancestry