Everything about Augusta Reuss-ebersdorf totally explained
Countess (later Princess)
Augusta Caroline Reuss of Ebersdorf (
German:
Gräfin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) (b.
Ebersdorf,
19 January 1757- d.
Coburg,
16 November 1831), was by marriage a duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
She was the fourth of seven children of Count
Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Ebersdorf and his wife
Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg.
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 the King
Leopold I of Belgium.
Countess Augusta is the grandmother of many notable monarchs of Europe, including both
Queen Victoria (through her mother
Victoria) and her husband,
Prince Albert (through his father
Ernst), King Consort of Portugal
Ferdinand II (through his father
Ferdinand, 4th Prince of Kohary), 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.)
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 on
16 November 1831, aged seventy-four, and five months after the election of her son Leopold as King of the Belgians.
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