Peter, 5th Count de Salis-Soglio

Who was Peter, 5th Count de Salis-Soglio?

Peter John Fane de Salis, Count de Salis-Soglio, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, DL, JP, G.C.J.J., K.R.E. was a mercenary soldier and landowner in Middlesex and the Irish counties Limerick and Armagh. He was Bailiff of the Venerable English Langue of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and Grand Prior of the Irish one. He was also an hereditary Knight of the Golden Spur/Eques Auratus and Count Palatine of the Lateran.

Petrus Johannes, Pierre Jean, was born in Marylebone, Westminster 26 February 1799 and died at Acton 24 December 1870. Eldest son of Jerome, Count de Salis by his first wife Sophia Drake. William Fane de Salis was a younger half-brother.