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Princess Mária Antónia
Princess Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Duchess in Saxony
Princess Mária Antónia von Koháry
Born(1797-07-02)2 July 1797
Buda
Died25 September 1862(1862-09-25) (aged 65)
Vienna
Buriedde [Friedhof am Glockenberg], Coburg
Noble familyHouse of Koháry '
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry
Spouse(s)Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
FatherPrince Ferencz József Koháry de Csábrág
MotherMaria Antoinetta Josefa von Waldstein-Wartenburg

Princess Mária Antónia von Koháry (2 July 1797 – 25 September 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the ancestress of several European monarchs. She was the heiress of the Koháry family and one of the three largest landowners in Hungary.

Life

She was born in Buda, as Countess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, the second child of Franz Josef, Count Koháry and his wife, Countess Maria Antoinetta Josefa von Waldstein-Wartenburg.[1] Her older brother Franz died, aged two, on 19 April 1795. This left Antónia, from the moment of her birth, as the sole heir to the vast fortune of the House of Koháry.

She inherited over 150000 hectares of land in Lower Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, including estates, forests, mines and factories. According to a list of assets appended to the marriage contract of her son, Prince August, at the time of his marriage to Princess Clémentine of Orléans in 1843, the Koháry properties included the enormous Palais Koháry in the center of Vienna and several Viennese manors, a summer home and lands at Ebenthal, Lower Austria, estates in Austria at Velm, Durnkrut, Walterskirchen, Bohmischdrut and Althoflein, as well as a dozen manors in Hungary, the domaine of Kiralytia, and a mansion at Pest.[2] As late as 1868, when Antónia's grandson Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alencon, married, it was estimated that he and his three siblings stood to inherit a total of a million francs just from their share of their late grandmother's estate.[2] Until the first world war, her descendants, the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, were among the three largest landowners in Hungary.

On 30 November 1815, in Vienna, she married Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.[1] He was an elder brother of Prince Leopold, future King of the Belgians but then consort to Princess Charlotte of Wales, who was expected to inherit the crown of Great Britain, and also elder brother of the Duchess of Kent, mother of the future Queen Victoria.[2] To make her a suitable bride for a prince, the emperor had raised her father (whose ancestors had been created counts in the Hungarian nobility in July 1685 and barons in February 1616) to Prince Koháry of Csábrág and Szitnya in Austria's nobility on 15 November 1815, two weeks before the wedding, thereby allowing her to come to her bridesgroom already a princess.[1]

She died in Vienna in 1862, and was buried in the ducal mausoleum on the de [Friedhof am Glockenberg] (Glockenberg cemetery) in Coburg.[3]

Marriage and issue

She and her husband became the parents of four children:[2]

The couple were also ancestors of Pedro V of Portugal, Luis I of Portugal, Charles I of Austria, Otto von Habsburg, Michael I of Romania, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Boris III of Bulgaria, Simeon II of Bulgaria, Henri, Count of Paris, Prince Boris of Leiningen and Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen，Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, and members of the Imperial House of Brazil alive today.

Titles and styles

  • 2 July 1797 - 14 November 1815: Countess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág
  • 15 November 1815 - 1 January 1816: Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csáabrág
  • 2 January 1816 - 25 September 1862: Her Ducal Serene Highness Princess Maria Antoina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony

Ancestors

Family of Princess Maria Antonia Koháry of Csábrág and Szitnya
16. Farkas, Count Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
8. András József, Count Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
17. Baroness Maria Luisa von Rechberg zu Osterberg und Weissenstein
4. Ignác, Count Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
18. Albrecht, Baron Thavonat von Thavon
9. Baroness Margarethe Thavonat von Thavon
19. Polixena Jakusith de Orbova
2. Ferencz, Prince Koháry de Csábrág
20. Count Leopold Cavriani
10. Count Maximilian Guidobaldo Cavriani von Imena
21. Baroness Maria Susanna von Gilleis
5. Countess Maria Anna von Cavriani
22. Count Christoph von Thurheim von Bibrachzell
11. Countess Maria Franziska von Thurheim
23. Countess Maria Franziska von Kuefstein
1. Princess Mária Antónia Koháry de Csábrág
24. Count Franz Joseph von Waldstein
12. Count Franz de Paula von Waldstein
25. Countess Maria Margareta Czernin von und zu Chudenitz
6. Count Georg Christian von Waldstein-Wartenberg
26. Count Franz von und zu Trauttmansdorff
13. Countess Maria Josepha von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg
27. Countess Maria Eleonore von Kaunitz
3. Countess Maria Antoinetta von Waldstein-Wartenburg
28. Count Leo Ulfeldt
14. Count Corfitz Anton Ulfeldt
29. Countess Anna Maria von Zinzendörf
7. Countess Elisabeth Ulfeldt
30. Philipp, 4th Prince von Lobkowicz
15. Princess Marie Elisabeth von Lobkowicz
31. Countess Anna Maria von Althann

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c "Kohary". Almanach de Gotha. Gotha, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Justus Perthes. 1825. pp. 3, 106–107.
  2. ^ a b c d Paoli, Dominique (2006). Fortunes & Infortunes des Princes d'Orléans. France: Editions Artena. pp. 107, 113, 372. ISBN 2-35154-004-2.
  3. ^ Harald Sandner: Das Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha 1826 bis 2001; Eine Dokumentation zum 175-jährigen Jubiläum des Stammhauses in Wort und Bild, Neue Presse, Coburg, 2001, ISBN 3-00-008525-4, p. 321

References

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