Dorothea Maria of Salm

Dorothea Maria zu Salm (in French: Dorothée-Marie de Salm) (1651-1702), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the immediate Imperial Remiremont Abbey in the Duchy of Lorraine which then formed a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but later on was annexed by France in 1766.

Dorothea Maria zu Salm was the eldest daughter of Prince Leopold Philipp Karl zu Salm (1620-1663) and his wife, Countess Maria Anna von Bronckhorst-Batenburg (1624-1661), heiress of Anholt.

[1] She was elected Coadjutrice as a child, with the right to succeed the existing abbess, Princess Anne Marie Thérèse de Lorraine.

The abbess at the time was also a child, and Remiremont was ruled by the Dame Doyenne, Hélène d'Anglure, and the Dame Sonière Bernarde de Cléron de Saffre (fl.

When Anne Marie Thérèse de Lorraine died in 1661, Dorothea Maria succeeded her, with the same guardian government.