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House of Wettin. The Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg (German: Sachsen-Altenburg) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in present-day Thuringia. The duchy originated from the medieval Burgraviate of Altenburg in the Imperial Pleissnerland (Terra Plisensis), a possession of the Wettin Margraves of Meissen since ...
30 November 1719 - 8 February 1772. Princess Augusta was born in Gotha on 30 November 1719, she was the daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676-1732) and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1676-1740). As a shy young girl at the age of just sixteen, Augusta was sent to England to marry twenty nine year old Frederick, Prince ...
Prince Albert was the eldest son (third in order of birth but the only one who survived to adulthood) of Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg (youngest son of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen) and his second wife, Princess Luise Caroline Reuss of Greiz . He entered the Russian army early in life, and attained the rank of Major-General in this ...
28 giu 2022 · Prince Albert Info. Born – 26th August 1819 Died – 14th December 1861 Father – Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784 – 1844) Mother – Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1800 – 1831) Spouse – m. 1840 – Queen Victoria of Great Britain
Among politicians born in Germany, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 954. Before her are Peer Steinbrück (1947), William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651), Klaus Wowereit (1953), Princess Amelia of Great Britain (1711), Eberhard III, Count of Württemberg (1364), and William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1593).
The duchies were later merged into Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was founded by Ernest I’s descendant, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1784 – 1844), the sixth duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Ernest I’s younger brother Leopold I (1790 – 1865) became King of the Belgians in 1831, and his descendants continue to ...
v. t. e. Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, born Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert; 15 October 1874 – 6 February 1899), was the only son and heir apparent of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, later Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He died aged 24 under circumstances still not entirely clear.
