Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Duchess Alexander of Württemberg
Princess Antoinette, oil on canvas, 1794
Spouse Duke Alexander of Württemberg
Issue
Antoinette Marie, Duchess of Sax-Coburg and Gotha
Paul of Württemberg
Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
Ernest of Württemberg
Frederick Wilhelm Ferdinand of Württemberg
Full name
Antoinette Ernestine Amalie
House House of Wettin
Father Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Mother Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf
Born 28 August 1779(1779-08-28)
Coburg
Died 14 March 1824(1824-03-14) (aged 44)
Saint Petersburg

Princess Antoinette Ernestine Amalie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (28 August 1779, Coburg – 14 March 1824, Saint Petersburg) was a German princess of the House of Wettin. By marriage, she was a Duchess of Württemberg. Through her eldest surviving son, she is the ancestress of today's (Catholic) House of Württemberg.

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[edit] Family

Antoinette was the second daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and his wife, Countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, daughter of count Heinrich XXIV. von Reuß-Ebersdorf and his wife Karoline Ernestine von Erbach-Schönberg. Her paternal grandparents were Ernst Friedrich and his wife princess Sofie Antoinette of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.

She was also the elder sister of King Leopold I of Belgium and the aunt of both Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.

[edit] Marriage and issue

Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld as Duchess of Württemberg.

In Coburg on 17 November 1798, she married Alexander of Württemberg. The couple settled in Russia, where Alexander made a military and diplomatic career.

They had five children:

  • Paul of Württemberg (1800–1801).
  • Ernest of Württemberg (1807–1868), duke of Württemberg, who in 1860 married Nathalie Eschhorn von Grünhof (1829–1905). Their only daughter, Alexandra Nathalie Ernestine von Grünhof, married Robert von Keudell and had issue

[edit] Ancestry

[edit] Bibliography

  • von Wiebeking, Carl Friedrich. Biographie des Herzogs Alexander zu Württemberg. Munich, 1835.
  • Sauer, Paul. "Alexander (I.)." In Das Haus Württemberg. Ein biographisches Lexikon, ed. Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, and Volker Press. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1997. ISBN 3-17-013605-4

[edit] External links

Media related to Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld at Wikimedia Commons


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