{"id":1502,"date":"2013-08-03T18:52:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T18:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prinzandreas.com\/?page_id=1502"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T15:28:39","slug":"family-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prinzandreas.com\/family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILY TREE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Franz Friedrich Anton<\/h3>\n

Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony\u00a0(since 1800)<\/h4>\n
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(Coburg, 15 July 1750 \u2013 Coburg, 9 December 1806)<\/em>
\nFranz Friedrich Anton had to take over a practically ruined duchy. But he was a very talented man and \u2013 despite of his lack of money \u2013 started to collect engravings of the most excelling artists between the 15th and 18th century, thus founding the Coburg Collection of Graphics with its today\u2019s 220.000 pieces of art. He is a patrilinear ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, King Philippe of the Belgians and former tsar Simeon II (1943 \u2013 1946 during the monarchy) and prime minister of Bulgaria (between 2001 and 2005).<\/p>\n

Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (till 1800)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Ernestine Friederike Sophie<\/h3>\n

Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony (since 1776)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n1<\/span><\/span>\n

(Hildburghausen, 22 February 1760 \u2013 Coburg, 28 October 1776)<\/em>
\nErnestine Friederike Sophie was the daughter of Duke Ernst Friedrich III of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727\u20131780) and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar (1740\u20131786). Her godparents were the Danish royal couple, the King of Poland, and the Regents of the houses of Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Weimar, Mecklenburg, and W\u00fcrttemberg. In 1776, at the age of 16, she married Prince Franz of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld. Ernestine died of influenza six months after the marriage.<\/p>\n

Princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Auguste Karoline Sophie<\/h3>\n

Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony (since 1800)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n2<\/span><\/span>\n

(Saalburg-Ebersdorf, 19 January 1757 \u2013 Coburg, 16 November 1831)<\/em>
\nAuguste had ten children, born between 1778 and 1792. One was stillborn and two died during their childhood. The other seven were married to European high nobility and these marriages were arranged under strong personal care. Auguste was the maternal grandmother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Ireland and the paternal grandmother of Albert, Prince Consort.<\/p>\n

Princess Reuss<\/strong><\/em>
\nPrincess of Ebersdorf<\/em><\/strong>
\nPrincess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony (since 1777)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

A DUCHY MAKES WORLD HISTORY<\/h5>
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Their descendants established ruling houses in\u00a0Belgium<\/b>,\u00a0United Kingdom<\/b>,\u00a0Portugal<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Bulgaria<\/b>. Their son L\u00e9opold\u00a0ruled as Leopold I of the Belgians. Their male-line great-grandson reigned as Edward VII of the United Kingdom. Another grandson, Ferdinand, reigned as jure uxoris king Ferdinand II of Portugal. Their granddaughter, L\u00e9opold\u00a0I of Belgium’s daughter, was Empress Carlota of Mexico. Franz Friedrich Anton\u00a0was also the maternal grandfather of Queen Victoria. Furthermore, a great-grandson ruled as Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

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Sophie Friederike Caroline Louise<\/h3>\n

Countess of Mensdorff-Pouilly (since 1818)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n1<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 19 August 1778 \u2013 Tuschnitz near Karlsbad, Bohemia, 9 July 1835)<\/em>
\nSophie (Sophie Friederike Caroline Louise) was the eldest child but got married only in 1804, after the marriage of her three younger sisters. Her husband was of French origin but served as a commander in the Austrian army. Then he became commander of the Fortress of Mainz, where he served as a vice-governor from 1829 to 1834. Emmanuel was created Count in Vienna on 29 November 1818. Twenty years later he purchased Schloss Preitenstein in the Plze\u0148 in Bohemia, the family\u2019s property until 1945. Before he retired from the army in 1848, he became vice-president of the Hofkriegsrat.<\/p>\n

Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony<\/strong><\/em>
\nPrincess of Ebersdorf\u00a0Baroness of Mensdorff-Pouilly (since 1804)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Antoinette Ernestine Amalie<\/h3>\n

Duchess of Wurttemberg (since 1798)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n2<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 28 August 1779, \u2013 Saint Petersburg, 14 March 1824)<\/em>
\nAntoinette Ernestine Amalie, the second eldest daughter of Duchess Auguste married in 1798 Alexander Friedrich Karl Duke of Wurttemberg (1771-1833), the brother of King Friedrich I of Wurttemberg (since 1806). Now she was a member of high nobility with strong ties to Russia and the Court. She had to live in Vitebsk (in Belarus) and was quite unhappy there. Two sons were born in Riga and her daughter Marie was later supposed to marry Duke Ernst I, her uncle and would became Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Antoinette Ernestine Amalie is the ancestor of today\u2019s (Catholic) House of Wurttemberg.<\/p>\n

Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Juliane Henriette Ulrike<\/h3>\n

Grand Duchess of Russia (since 1896)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n3<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 23 September 1781 \u2013 Elfenau, near Bern, Switzerland, 15 August 1860)<\/em>
\nTogether with her mother and her two older sisters 15-years old Juliane went to visit the Russian court on request of Tsarina Katharina II, who looked for a bride for her second grandchild Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia. He chose her as a wife in 1796, but made her very unhappy. She made soon plans to escape, but it was only in 1801 that these plans became real. She never returned to her husband who refused a divorce. After a stay at Coburg she went to Switzerland and there, finally, after being separated for 19 years, Tsar Alexander I of Russia dissolved her marriage. She stayed in Switzerland in her property, the Elfenau.<\/p>\n

Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Still Born
\nChild<\/h3>\n
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(Coburg, 1782)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Ernst<\/h3>\n

Ernst I Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony (since 1826)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n5<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 2 January 1784 \u2013 Gotha, 29 January 1844)<\/em>
\nWhen Ernst (Ernst Anton Carl Ludwig) succeeded his father in 1806, Duke Ernst III\u2019s country \u2013 Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld \u2013 was under French control. Ernst already had to fight against Napol\u00e9on as a general of the Prussians. The peace of Tilsit in 1807 enabled the young duke to get back his territories, having the Russians on his side. His sister Juliane was married to Konstantin, the brother of Alexander I Tsar of Russia. After the Congress of Vienna and its hence resulting gain of territory which Ernst should sell to Prussia years later, he could achieve Gotha that belonged to the territory of his former wife. Now he became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He proved to be a patron of arts and sciences and the first German sovereign to rebuild castles in a romantic neo-Gothic style, embedded in parks of British landscape style. His younger brother Leopold (Georg Christian Friedrich) was later elected the first King of the Belgians.<\/p>\n

Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld<\/strong><\/em>
\nErnst III (last sovereign) Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony (since 1806)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Ferdinand Georg August<\/h3>\n

Prince of Saxe-Coburg (Koh\u00e1ry), Duke of Saxony (since 1826)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n6<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 28 March 1785 \u2013 Vienna, 27 August 1851)<\/em>
\nFerdinand Georg August is the second son of Franz Friedrich Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and his wife Auguste Karoline Sophie. He served as a general of cavalry in the Austrian Imperial and Royal Army during the Napoleonic Wars. It was in Austria that he met Countess Maria Antonia Koh\u00e1ry of Cs\u00e1br\u00e1g and Szitnya, daughter and heiress of Ferenc J\u00f3zsef, Count Koh\u00e1ry of Cs\u00e1br\u00e1g and Szitnya. The couple married in 1815. When Antonia's father, who was the Imperial Chancellor of Emperor Franz I, died in 1826, the Koh\u00e1ry fiefdom estates reverted to the Emperor. He gave them to his highly decorated general Ferdinand to thank him for his military service. So Ferdinand\u2019s family \u2013 he on his part had to convert to Roman Catholicism \u2013 became the third largest landowner of Greater Hungary at his time.<\/p>\n

Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Marie Luise Victoire<\/h3>\n

The Duchess of Kent and Strathearn (since 1818)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n7<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 17 August 1786 \u2013 Frogmore House, Windsor, 16 March 1861)<\/em>
\nVictoire (Marie Luise Victoire) married in 1803 Carl, Prince of Leiningen (1763 \u2013 1814), with whom she had two children. After the sudden death of her sister-in-law Charlotte, the hereditary princess of the United Kingdom, one of Charlotte\u2019s uncles, the Duke of Kent proposed to the dowager Victoire and she accepted. Their daughter should become Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.<\/p>\n

Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Hereditary Princess of Leiningen (since 1803)<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Princess of Leiningen (since 1807)<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Dowager Princess of Leiningen (since 1814)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Marianne Charlotte<\/h3>\n

Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Saxony<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n8<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 7 August 1788 \u2013 Coburg, 23 August 1794)
\n6 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Leopold<\/h3>\n

L\u00e9opold I, King of the Belgians (since 1831)<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n9<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 16 December 1790 \u2013 Laeken, Brussels, 10 December 1865)
\n<\/em>Leopold (Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) was the youngest son of Duke Franz Friedrich Anton and Duchess Auguste Karoline Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Leopold was appointed colonel of a regiment in Russia because of his relationship and finally reached the rank of lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army. He excelled in negotiating and diplomatic duties. In 1816 he married Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, who was to become Queen of the United Kingdom. But she died after one year of marriage on the birth of a stillborn son. The widower Leopold stayed in London, neglected the offer to become King of Greece but accepted to become the first King of the Belgians, following Belgium\u2019s independence from the Netherlands in 1831. Thus he was the founder of the Belgian line of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His children included L\u00e9opold II, King of the Belgians and Carlota, Empress of Mexico. And he was a maternal uncle and adviser of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nPrince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony (since 1826)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Franz Maximilian Ludwig<\/h3>\n

Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n10<\/span>\n

(Coburg, 12 December 1792\u2013 Coburg, 3 January 1793)
\n22 days old.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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