Hermann of Salm

Hermann of Luxembourg, Count of Salm, (* 1035, † September 28, 1088 at Cochem Castle ), founder of the House of Salm, was a son of the Count of Luxembourg and his wife Giselbert.

Hermann of Salm was on August 6, 1081, while Henry IV was in Italy, elected by the meeting in Ochsenfurt Saxony and Swabia, succeeding Rudolf of Rheinfelden anti-king. Archbishop Siegfried I of Mainz crowned him on December 26th in Goslar king.

Hermann of Salm was limited only to its sphere of influence Saxony and could therefore not enforce against Henry IV. Even his relatives, the influential and widespread in the kingdom of Luxembourg, remained loyal to the Emperor without exception. Hermann's plan to break up with a gathering on the Danube army to Italy, was frustrated by the death of his main trailer Otto II of Northeim. When Henry in 1085 marched with an army into Saxony, Hermann fled to the Danes, but returned. With the support of the Duke of Bavaria, Welf V., he suggested in 1086 the Emperor with bleach box at Main and won Würzburg. But his influence was still so low that he at no time posed a threat to Henry.

His role as a puppet king, who was only a pawn in the hands of ambitious Big, tired, he retired in 1088 in his hereditary lands back and lost in the same year in the battle for Cochem life. He was buried in Metz.

With his wife Sophia of Formbach he had the following children: Hermann II von Salm, Otto I of Salm and Dietrich von Salm.

Swell

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