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When the last duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg died without issue in 1825, the other branches of the house decided on a rearrangement of the Ernestine duchies. On 12 November 1826, Frederick became Duke of Saxe-Altenburg , to which he gave a first Basic Law in the year 1831; in exchange, he ceded Saxe-Hildburghausen to the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen .
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 ...
When Princess Augusta von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg was born on 30 November 1719, in Gotha, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Germany, her father, Herzog Friedrich II. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, was 43 and her mother, Magdalena Augusta v. Anhalt-Zerbst, was 40. She married Prince Frederick Louis of Great Britain and Hannover Prince of Wales on 8 May 1736 ...
Religion. Lutheran. Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (15 July 1646 – 2 August 1691), was a duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. He was born in Gotha, the fourth but eldest surviving son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg and Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg . When Ernst inherited the duchy of Saxe-Altenburg (1672), he made ...
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (November 30, [O.S. November 19] 1719 – 8 February 1772)[1] was Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales. She was one of only four Princesses of Wales who never became queen consort, as her eldest son succeeded her father-in-law as George III of the United Kingdom in 1760 rather than her spouse, who had died nine years earlier ...
