How to Pronounce Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach
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Oct 01, 1521 Died on 13 Jan 1561 (aged 39)
Ruling Count of Solms-Laubach
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About Frederick Magnus I Count Of Solms Laubach
- Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach (1521 – 13 January 1561 in Laubach) was regent of Solms-Laubach from 1522 to 1548, and the ruling Count of Solms-Laubach from 1548 until his death. After the early death of his father Otto (1496–1522), Frederick Magnus I took up the government in his father's part of the County of Solms.
- He chose Laubach Castle as his permanent residence and gradually converted the castle into a palace.
- After the third division of Solms in 1548, Solms-Laubach became a separate principality, with Frederick Magnus I as its first ruler. He married Agnes of Wied and had issue: John George (1547–1600) Elisabeth of Solms-Laubach (6 March 1549 – 1599), married Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein Anna (11 April 1557 – 8 December 1586), married George III, Count of Erbach-BreubergIn 1540, Laubach became a fortress and a militia was established.
- This militia has been preserved to this day as the Laubach festival committee.
- Frederick Magnus I was a friend of the Reformer Philipp Melanchthon.
- He introduced the Reformation in Solms-Laubach in 1544.
- He abolished the inheritance tax and issued a simplified court order, which developed into the Civil Code of Solms.
- In 1555, he founded a Latin School, with teachers from Wittenberg.
- He also founded the library of Laubach, which now contains over 90000titles from the 16th century to the present.
- It is a listed monument and was registered under Heritage Protection Act in 1955. Frederick Magnus I died in 1561 and was succeeded by his son John George (1547–1600).
