Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Juliane Henriette Ulrike of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld ( born September 23, 1781 Coburg, † August 15 1860 in the Elfenau, Bern ) was a Princess of Saxe -Coburg -Saalfeld by marriage and under the name of Anna Feodorovna Russian Grand Duchess.

Life

Juliane was a daughter of Duke Francis Frederick of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld (1750-1806), from his marriage to Auguste (1757-1831), daughter of Count Heinrich XXIV Reuss to Ebersdorf. Her brother Leopold King of the Belgians in 1831 and her sister Victoria, she was an aunt of Queen Victoria. Her brother Ernst followed in 1806 his father as Duke of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld.

When Empress Catherine II a bride for her grandson Constantine sought, Juliane traveled on August 12, 1795 with her mother and her sisters Sophie and Antoinette accompanied by Ferdinand von Wintzingerode to Russia. Constantine chose the youngest of the three sisters, Princess Juliane. This compound and the marriage of her brother Leopold with the British heiress Charlotte Auguste made ​​the Coburg court later became a dynastic center of Europe. Even Napoleon treated the tiny Coburg State because of its association with Russia in the Napoleonic Wars far less arbitrary.

On February 26, 1796 married Juliane, not yet 15 years old, in Saint Petersburg the then 16 -year-old Russian Grand Duke Konstantin ( 1779-1831 ), brother of Tsar Alexander I.. Marriage with Constantine, who was known as violent, was However unhappy. So they fled St. Petersburg and settled down in 1813 in Bern, the home of the father of her second child.

1814 Anna acquired a situated on the banks of the Aare estate and gave him the name Elfenau, and finally in 1820 the divorce of Constantinople was completed. Anna Feodorovna was a great music lover and made Elfenau to a center of national and international society.

Juliane was awarded the Grand Cross of the Imperial Russian St. Katharine North as well as the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Progeny

Juliane was the mother of two children born out of wedlock. Probably with Jules Gabriel Emile de Seigneux (1768-1834), a French nobleman small, she had the son:

  • Edward Edgar Schmidt- lion ( * 1808, † April 3, 1892 ), collected in 1818 as " of Löwenfels " by Juliane's brother Duke Ernst to the peerage

Father of her second child was her chief steward Rudolf Abraham Schiferli from Bern:

  • Hilda Louise Agnes (1812-1837)
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