Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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Princess Antoinette Ernestine Amalie of Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (28 August 1779, Coburg - 14 March 1824, Saint Petersburg) was a German princess. As the daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the wife of Alexander of Württemberg, the mother of Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Württemberg and the grandmother of Philipp von Württemberg, she is the ancestress of today's (Catholic) House of Württemberg.
[edit] Life
Antoinette was the second daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750–1806) and his wife countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf (1757–1831), daugther 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.
Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was also the elder sister of king Leopold I of Belgium and the aunt of both Queen Victoria and her Prince Consort Albert. In Coburg on 17 November 1798, she married Alexander of Württemberg. They had five children:
- Antoinette of Württemberg (1799-1860), who in 1832 married Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
- Alexander of Württemberg (1804-1881), duke of Württemberg
- Ernest of Württemberg (1807-1868), duke of Württemberg, who in 1860 married Nathalie Eschhorn von Grünhof (1829-1905) :
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand of Württemberg (Saint Petersburg 29 April 1810-Saint Petersburg, 25 April 1815)
[edit] Bibliography
- Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking: Biographie des Herzogs Alexander zu Württemberg, München (1835)
- Paul Sauer: Alexander (I.); in: Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, Volker Press (Hrsg.): Das Haus Württemberg. Ein biographisches Lexikon, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart (1997) ISBN 3-17-013605-4
