Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf

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Auguste Reuss of Ebersdorf as Artemisia, 1775, painted by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, sen., called: the Kasseler.
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Auguste Reuss of Ebersdorf as Artemisia, 1775, painted by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, sen., called: the Kasseler.

Countess Augusta Caroline Reuss of Ebersdorf and Lobenstein (German: Gräfin Reuß zu Ebersdorf und Lobenstein) (b. Ebersdorf, 19 January 1757- d. Coburg, 16 November 1831), was by marriage a duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

She was the fourth of the seven children of the Count Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Ebersdorf and Lobenstein and his wife Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg.

In Ebersdorf on 13 June 1777 Augusta married with Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She bore him ten children; some of them played importants roles in his time in Europe: Viktoria, Duchess of Kent and the King Leopold I of Belgium.

Countess Augusta is the grandmother of both Queen Victoria (through her mother Viktoria) and her husband, Prince Albert (through his father Ernst). Also, she was the grandmother of the King Consort Ferdinand II of Portugal (through her son Ferdinand).

The house of Reuss-Ebersdorf-Lobenstein became princes in 1806, and all its members (included Augusta) bore the title Prince(ss) Reuss of Ebersdorf and Lobenstein, Younger Line (German: Fürst/Fürstin Reuß zu Ebersdorf und Lobenstein, Yüngere Linie) .

In 26 June 1831 her younger son Leopold was elected King of the Belgians. Augusta died five months later, aged seventy-four.

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