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2 days ago · Leopold I, who had accepted the Belgium throne in 1831, was from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dynasty, which needed to invoke Belgium’s past to lend a sense of legitimacy to the royal line of the newly created country. Philip was thus given the dynastic title Count of Flanders in 1840.
3 days ago · Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861.
3 days ago · Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg and Braganza, who claimed she was an illegitimate daughter of King Carlos I of Portugal, began asserting that she was the heir to the throne from 1957. Allegedly, she adopted the Italian Rosario Poidimani, transferring her claimed rights to the Portuguese throne to him.
5 days ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
4 days ago · Genealogy for Ernst I Saxe Gotha Altenburg (1601 - 1675) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. ... Sachsen Coburg ...
4 days ago · Stockmar was made adviser to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and was employed to arrange his marriage to Queen Victoria, Leopold’s niece (Feb. 10, 1840). Stockmar remained at the English court until his retirement to Germany in 1857.
3 days ago · They secured the patronage of Princess Charlotte, who had married the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, and through her influence were granted a licence from the Surrey justices in 1816. The theatre was named, in compliment to the princess, the Royal Coburg Theatre.
