Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf

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Countess (later Princess) Augusta Caroline Reuss of Ebersdorf (Template:Lang-de) (19 January 1757 – 16 November 1831), was by marriage a duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born in Ebersdorf.

Contents 1 Family 2 Marriage 2.1 Issue 2.2 Notable descendants 3 Elevation to Princess

Family

She was the second of seven children of Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf and his wife Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg.

Marriage

In Ebersdorf on 13 June 1777 Augusta married Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She bore him ten children; some of them played important roles in European history: Victoria, Duchess of Kent, and King Leopold I of Belgium.

Issue

1. Princess Sophie Fredericka, Countess von Mensdorff-Pouilly
2. Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
3. Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia
4. Stillborn son
5. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
6. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
7. Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn
8. Princess Marianne
9. Leopold I of Belgium
10. Prince Francis Maximilian

Notable descendants

Countess Augusta is the grandmother of many notable monarchs of Europe, including both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (through her mother Victoria) and her husband, Prince Albert (through his father Ernst), King Consort of Portugal Ferdinand II (through his father Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), and also Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium (through their father Leopold I who was elected King of the Belgians on 26 June 1831.)

Elevation to Princess

The House of Reuss became princes on 9 April 1806, and all the surviving members of the Ebersdorf-Lobenstein line (including Augusta) bore the title Prince(ss) Reuss of Ebersdorf (German: Fürst/Fürstin Reuß zu Ebersdorf, Jüngere Linie) . Augusta died in Coburg on 16 November 1831, aged seventy-four, five months after the election of her son Leopold as King of the Belgians. Template:Start box Template:S-hou Template:S-roy |- Template:S-bef Template:S-ttl Template:S-vac Template:S-endde:Auguste Reuß zu Ebersdorf es:Augusta de Reuss-Ebersdorf it:Augusta di Reuss-Ebersdorf nl:Augusta van Reuss-Ebersdorf en Lobenstein no:Augusta av Reuss-Ebersdorf pl:Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf pt:Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf sv:Augusta av Reuss-Ebersdorf