William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster, (19 May 1824 – 30 April 1901), styled Viscount FitzClarence from 1831 to 1842, was a British peer, and the grandson of King William IV, whom he was named after, and who died in 1837, aged almost 72, when the younger William was just 13. FitzClarence's father, George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster, was an illegitimate son of King William IV by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan. Therefore, the second Earl of Munster was the great-grandson of King George III and first cousin once-removed of Queen Victoria. His
Dorothea Maria of Salm lasting conflict about her rights to rule Remiremont. In 1691, both parties appeared before the French monarch as mediator. Dorothea Maria appointed her sister Christina of Salm as "Second-in-Command" in 1700, and Christina was therefore made regent in Remiremont during the minority of Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine in 1702-1711. 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.