Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg

German prince
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGerman prince
PlacesGermany
wasPrince
Work fieldRoyals
Gender
Male
Birth3 July 1804, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany
Death16 May 1852Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany (aged 47 years)
Star signCancer
Family
Mother:Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Father:Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Siblings:Georg Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Joseph Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Friedrich von Sachsen-Altenburg Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen
Spouse:Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Children:Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg Princess Marie Gasparine of Saxe-Altenburg
The details

Biography

Eduard Karl Wilhelm Christian of Saxe-Altenburg (Hildburghausen, 3 July 1804 – Munich, 16 May 1852), was a German prince of the ducal house of Saxe-Hildburghausen (of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826).

Family

He was the seventh but fourth surviving son of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826) and Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Life

Marriages and issue

He married firstly in Sigmaringen on 25 July 1835 to Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. They had four children:

  1. Therese Amalie Karoline Josephine Antoinette (b. Ansbach, 21 December 1836 - d. Stockholm, 9 November 1914), married on 16 April 1864 to Prince August of Sweden.
  2. Antoinette Charlotte Marie Josephine Karoline Frida (b. Bamberg, 17 April 1838 - d. Berchtesgaden, 13 October 1908), married on 22 April 1854 to Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt.
  3. Ludwig Joseph Karl Georg Friedrich (b. Bamberg, 24 September 1839 - d. Munich, 13 February 1844).
  4. Johann Friedrich Joseph Karl (b. Sigmaringen, 8 January 1841 - d. Munich, 25 February 1844).

He married secondly in Greiz on 8 March 1842 to Princess Luise Caroline Reuss of Greiz, daughter of Heinrich XIX. They had two children:

  1. Albert Heinrich Joseph Carl Viktor Georg Friedrich (b. Munich, 14 April 1843 - d. Serrahn, 22 May 1902). He married first Princess Marie of Prussia and secondly Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
  2. Marie Gasparine Amalie Antoinette Karoline Elisabeth Luise (b. Munich, 28 June 1845 - d. Sondershausen, 5 July 1930), married on 12 June 1869 to Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Ernst Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Countess Sophie Albertine of Erbach-Erbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Philipp Karl, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Countess Charlotte Amalie of Kunowitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Princess Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Adolf Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Prince of Mirow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Princess Christiane Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (= 16)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Countess Sophie Albertine of Erbach-Erbach (= 17)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Landgrave George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Countess Marie Luise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Countess Catharine Polyxene of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim
 
 
 
 
 
 
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