Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Antoinette Ernestine Amalie of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld ( born August 28, 1779 Coburg, † March 14, 1824 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Princess of Saxe -Coburg -Saalfeld. She is the matriarch of today's Catholic House of Württemberg.
Life
Antoinette was the second daughter of the Duke Franz of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld (1750-1806) and his wife the Countess Auguste Reuss to Ebersdorf (1757-1831), daughter of Count Heinrich XXIV Reuss to Ebersdorf and his wife Karoline Ernestine of Erbach Schoenberg. She is the elder sister of the Belgian King Leopold I and the aunt of Queen Victoria and her Prince Consort.
On November 17, 1798 Antoinette married in Coburg Prince Friedrich Karl Alexander of Württemberg ( 1771-1833 ), the seventh son of Duke Friedrich Eugen and his first wife Princess Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg- Schwedt.
The couple lived in Russia, where her husband entertained as uncle of Tsar Alexander I and Nicholas I. a military and political career. Your sister in law was the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna at that time. Antoinette, who was considered influential, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Imperial Russian Order of Saint Catherine. She was buried in the royal crypt of Castle peace, in Gotha, in which even her husband and died young sons Paul and Friedrich found their final resting place.
Progeny
From their marriage, Antoinette had the following children:
- Antoinette Friederike Auguste Marie Anna (1799-1860)
- Paul (1800-1802)
- Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm (1804-1881), Russian general
- Ernst Alexander Constantine (1807-1868), Russian general
- Friedrich (1810-1815)