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Salzburg court throughout her life. Salome Alt and her children were given the freedom of the Salzburg estate on 24 May 1610, freeing them from the obligations and duties of commoners, and freeing them from the city administration. In 1610, Raitenau gave her Schloss Seehaus, in Rupertiwinkel. Through Raitenau's gifts and purchases in the archbishopric of Salzburg, Salome Alt's assets reached the enormous value of more than 400,000 guilders, assessed in an inventory of 31 October 1610. The annual income from her 80 businesses (farms, farmsteads, inns, mills, fields, and wood-cutting rights) amounted to over 200 guilders. In 1612 she waived her rights to 120,000 guilders in debt obligations from the Tirol in favour of the Salzburg cathedral chapter.
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Freinslabin, 7th March 1617, at Wels. In: "4. Salzburger Landessausstellung - FĂĽrsterzbischof Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau - GrĂĽnder des barocken Salzburgs"
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in Flachau for safety, and fled the Salzburg court himself, seeking refuge at Kärnten. He was, however, captured by the Bavarians at Gmünd, and brought first to
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