Viktoria von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter : Victoire d'Orléans, duchesse de Nemours (1852)

Viktoria Franziska Antonia Juliane Luise of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born February 14, 1822 in Vienna , † November 10, 1857 in Claremont House near Esher , County of Surrey , England) was a princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from the Catholic sidelines of Koháry and by marriage to the Duchess of Nemours .

Life

Viktoria was the only daughter of Duke Ferdinand Georg August von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry (1785-1851) and his wife of the Hungarian Hereditary Princess Marie Antonie Gabriele von Koháry (1797-1862). Her paternal grandparents were Duke Franz von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld and his second wife, Countess Auguste Reuss zu Ebersdorf . She still had three brothers; Ferdinand (II.) (1816–1885) became king of Portugal , August (1818–1881) married her husband's sister, Princess Clementine d'Orléans (1817–1907), and Leopold married the composer Konstanze Geiger , who was not in keeping with his class .

François Aldophe Moriot : Princess Viktoria of Saxony-Coburg and her husband Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours
Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Victoire d'Orléans, duchesse de Nemours with her cousin (first degree), the British Queen Victoria , around 1852

On April 27, 1840, Princess Victoria married Prince Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours (1814-1896), second son of the Duke of Orléans and later "King of the French" Louis-Philippe and Princess Maria Amelia of in Saint-Cloud Bourbon – Sicily . The marriage was hardly noticed in public. The father-in-law intended the domain Rambouillet and 1 million francs as a bride-to-be present , but the chamber refused the king's demands.

In 1848 the royal family fled the February Revolution to England, where they found exile with Victoria's childhood cousin and playmate, Britain's Queen Victoria . The cousins ​​were extremely close, and the Duchess of Nemours spent much time with the Queen as her guest at Osborne House . Victoria was the holder of the Royal Order of Mary Louisen .

Viktoria died on November 10, 1857, just ten days after the birth of her fourth child, of complications from puerperal fever . She was buried in Weybridge Chapel. The well-known sculptor Henri Chapu designed a tomb for the Duchess, who died early , with the help of portraits and the death mask . Her body was transferred to the royal chapel of the Orléans family in Dreux in Normandy in 1979 .

reception

A peony is named "Duchesse de Nemours" , Latin Paeonia lactiflora , in honor of Viktoria d'Orléans, duchesse de Nemours, who died early.

progeny

Their marriage had four children:

⚭ 1864 Infanta Isabella of Brazil (1846–1921)
  • Ferdinand Philippe Marie (1844–1910), duc d'Alençon
⚭ 1868 Duchess Sophie in Bavaria (1847–1897)
⚭ 1872 Prince Władysław Czartoryski (1828–1894)
  • Blanche Marie Amelié Caroline Louise Victoire (1857-1932)

literature

  • René Bazin: Le Duc de Nemours . Paul Thureau-Dangin, Histoire de la monarchie de France, 1907.
  • Ralph Braun: In twenty years international Johann Strauss encounters in Coburg . Coburg 2007, p. 28 online resource (PDF, 2.27 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ French Victoire Auguste Antoinette d'Orléans, duchesse de Nemours
  2. ^ Thomas Raikes: A portion of the journal kept by Thomas Raikes, esq., From 1831 to 1847. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858, p. 202
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Menzel: The last 120 years of world history. (1740-1860). Adolph Krabbe, 1860, p. 158.
  4. ^ Human Flower Project

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personal data
SURNAME Viktoria von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viktoria Auguste Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry; Nemours, Viktoria duchess de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German princess, by marriage Duchess of Nemours
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1857
Place of death Claremont House , County Surrey