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Count Ernest and his sister
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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg was inherited by
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Dowager Countess and the three half-brothers of her late husband (sons of Count William III and his second wife Anna Ottilie of
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Juliane to surrender the County to him and his brothers.
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Salome Sophia Ursula (1659 – 29 June 1678), married to Louis
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229:"Genealogy of the House of Sponheim (Sayn branch)"
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