Jerome Hieronimus Gerolamo DE SALIS (1709

Jerome Hieronimus Gerolamo DE SALIS (1709 - 1794)

2nd Count

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Charles DE SALIS (1736 - 1781) Peter DE SALIS (1738 - 1809) Henry Jerome DE SALIS (1740 - 1810) William DE SALIS (1741 - 1750)	Jerome Hieronimus Gerolamo DE SALIS (1709 - 1794) + Mary FANE (1710 - 1785)	Peter DE SALIS-SOGLIO (1675 - 1749)	Antonio DE SALIS-SOGLIO (1649 - 1735)

			Perpetua VON PLANTA-ZUOZ

		Margherita DE SALIS-SIGLIO (1678 - 1747)	Hercules DE SALIS-SIGLIO

Pic 3. Escrutcheon over main door of the house Jerome's father built in Coire/Chur from 1727

b. 08 Jul 1709 at Chur, Grisons, Switzerland

m. 07 Jan 1734 Mary FANE (1710 - 1785)

d. 08 Aug 1794 at London, Middlesex, England aged 85

Parents:

Peter DE SALIS-SOGLIO (1675 - 1749)

Margherita DE SALIS-SIGLIO (1678 - 1747)

Siblings (1):

Margaretha DE SALIS-SOGLIO (1704 - 1765)

Children (4):

Charles DE SALIS (1736 - 1781)

Peter DE SALIS (1738 - 1809)

Henry Jerome DE SALIS (1740 - 1810)

William DE SALIS (1741 - 1750)

Grandchildren (2):

Jerome Hieronimus Fane DE SALIS (1771 - 1836), Henrietta DE SALIS (1779 - 1785)

Events in Jerome Hieronimus Gerolamo DE SALIS (1709 - 1794)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
08 Jul 1709		Jerome Hieronimus Gerolamo DE SALIS was born	Chur, Grisons, Switzerland
07 Jan 1734	24	Married Mary FANE (aged 24)
25 Jul 1736	27	Birth of son Charles DE SALIS	Westminster, Middlesex, England
28 Jun 1738	28	Birth of son Peter DE SALIS	Westminster, Middlesex, England
20 Aug 1740	31	Birth of son Henry Jerome DE SALIS
1741	32	Birth of son William DE SALIS
1747	38	Death of mother Margherita DE SALIS-SIGLIO (aged 69)
1749	40	Death of father Peter DE SALIS-SOGLIO (aged 74)
1750	41	Death of son William DE SALIS (aged 9)
Jul 1781	72	Death of son Charles DE SALIS (aged 45)	Hieres, Provence, France
31 Mar 1785	75	Death of wife Mary FANE (aged 75)	Isleworth, England
08 Aug 1794	85	Jerome Hieronimus Gerolamo DE SALIS died	London, Middlesex, England

Personal Notes:

1. Family background and early life in Chur and London
He was born on 8 July 1709 in Chur, capital of the Grisons, then an independent republic, whose rule extended into present day Italy, including the areas of Chiavenna and the Valtellina. He would be the only surviving son of Colonel Peter de Salis-Soglio (1675-1749), by his wife Margherita (1678-1747), daughter of Hercules de Salis-Soglio.

His father, of a distinguished family [1] had been a soldier in France, in the States-General of the Netherlands and in England, where he became envoy of the Grisons Republic to the Court of St. James's during the reign of Queen Anne. There he became an Anglophile and made influential friends amongst the Hanoverians. On his return to Chur he resolved to send his son to London and Jerome de Salis became a naturalized British subject by Private Act of Parliament on 24 March 1730/31.

On 7 January 1734/35, de Salis married Mary Fane, eldest daughter of Charles, the first Viscount Fane. Together they were to have four sons: Charles (1736-1781), who died at Hieres; Peter (1738-1807), who became 3rd Count de Salis; Henry Jerome (1740-1810) and William (1741-1750).

De Salis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 19 March 1741, proposed by Philip, 2nd Earl Stanhope (his wife's cousin), Martin Folkes (former president of the society), Andrew Mitchell, and his brother-in-law, Lord Sandwich. [2] .

2. Diplomatic Service in the Grisons
In 1743, de Salis was appointed British Resident. This means he served as King George II's extraordinary envoy or minister plenipotentiary to the Grisons Leagues. He arrived in Coire on April 10, 1743, and resided there in a public character until 13 March 1750.

In 1748, by a patent dated of 12 March Emperor Francis I created his father Peter, together with his descendants, a Count of the Holy Roman Empire; the father died the following year.

During and after his time as British Resident in the Grisons he lived in both Chur and in Chiavenna and, in the mid-1760s, he started to build an Anglo-Palladian double-pile summer villa [1] in Bondo, a village in the Val Bregaglia between Chiavenna and the Maloja Pass. The house was completed by his son Peter in 1774.

3. Return to London
De Salis returned to London in 1768 and lived in Harley Street until his death on 8 August, 1794. In the meantime, his wife lived in Knightsbridge, Margate, Marseilles, Harlington and, from 1780, at Smallborough Green, Isleworth. She died there of dropsy on the 31 March 1785 and was buried at Harlington.

4. Sister
Margaretha, (born 2 July 1704 and died 13 May 1765), married 3 October 1728, Antonio v. Salis-Soglio; Chur Stadtrichter; (born 1702 and died 1765). He was son of commissioner Battista v. Salis-Soglio of the Casa Battista, by Anna v. Salis-Samaden.

6. Notes

Salis's great-grandfather Antonio (1609-1682) had with his brothers Rudolph and Friedrich bought the seigneurie d'Ober Aich and Engishofen in Thurgau on 10 June 1646. Their father was a knight of the Order of San Marco (22 August 1603) and in turn his father had been invested an hereditary Knight of the Golden Spur on 11 April 1571 by Pope Pius V. Earlier the Venetians had also made him a (life) Knight of the Order of St. Mark.
Their citation ran as follows:Jerom de Salis Esqr. of London. A Gentleman of great merit & distinction, being desirous of becoming a fellow of this Honourable Society, we accordingly recommend him as a Person of Learning, well Skill'd in Philosophical & Natural knowledg, and every way qualified to be a usefull and valuable member of the Society. ‘Salis, Jerome de’, Library and Archive catalogue of the Royal Society.

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