Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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Portrait of Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Duchess of Württemberg
Portrait of Princess Antoinette, pastel, around 1796, Callenberg Castle , Coburg

Antoinette Ernestine Amalie von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (born August 28, 1779 in Coburg , † March 14, 1824 in Saint Petersburg ) was a princess of Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld . She is the ancestral mother of today's Catholic House of Württemberg .

Life

Antoinette was the second daughter of Duke Franz von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750-1806) and his wife of Countess Auguste Reuss zu Ebersdorf (1757-1831), daughter of Count Heinrich XXIV. Reuss zu Ebersdorf and his wife Karoline Ernestine zu Erbach -Schönberg. She is the older sister of the Belgian King Leopold I and the aunt of the British Queen Victoria and her Prince Consort Albert .

On November 17, 1798, Antoinette married Prince Alexander Friedrich Karl von Württemberg (1771–1833) in Coburg , the seventh son of Duke Friedrich Eugen and his first wife, Princess Friederike Dorothea von Brandenburg-Schwedt .

The couple lived in Russia , where their husband had a military and political career as the uncle of Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I. Her sister-in-law was the then Tsarina Maria Feodorovna . Antoinette, who was considered influential, was the bearer of the Grand Cross of the Imperial Russian Order of Saint Catherine . She was buried in the royal crypt of Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha , where her husband and sons Paul and Friedrich, who died young, also found their final resting place.

According to Queen Luise of Prussia, she is said to have had an illegitimate child. She wrote to her brother Georg on May 18, 1802: "[...] The Württemberg resident has not spoken to her Sposa in 2 years, but has buckled up a child and papa is a Herr von Höbel, Canon. I know all this from the Duke of Weimar and it is holy true. "

progeny

From their marriage, Antoinette had the following children:

⚭ 1832 Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784–1844)
⚭ 1837 Princess Marie Christine of Orléans (1813–1839)
  • Ernst Alexander Konstantin (1807–1868), Russian general
⚭ 1860 Natalie Eschborn , from 1860 "von Grünhof" (1829–1905)
  • Friedrich (1810-1815)

literature

  • Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking: Biography of Duke Alexander zu Württemberg , Munich (1835)
  • Paul Sauer: Alexander (I.) ; in: Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, Volker Press (Ed.): The House of Württemberg. A biographical lexicon , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart (1997) ISBN 3-17-013605-4

Web links

Commons : Antoinette von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charles Gray: The youth of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , Perthes, 1868, p. 4
  2. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual, Guttenberg, 1824, p. 10 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Queen Luise of Prussia: Letters and Notes 1786–1810. Kunstverlag, 2010, p. 188
personal data
SURNAME Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antonia of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ancestral mother of today's Catholic House of Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1824
Place of death St. Petersburg