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unusual facts about House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha



Adolph Douai

Karl Daniel Adolph Douai was born February 22, 1819 in Altenburg, Thuringia in the Duchy of Saxon-Altenburg, the son of a school teacher.

Amway Australia

Amway Australia has four business centres opened in Loganholme, Queensland; Castle Hill, New South Wales; Coburg, Victoria and Kewdale, Western Australia.

Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

In 12 November 1826, after the redistribution of all the family territories after the death of the last Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Bernhard II received Hildburghausen and Saalfeld.

Botanical Museum Greifswald

The porcelain models were produced between 1856 and 1899 in Gotha.

Carl Hermann Credner

Credner was born at Gotha, educated at Breslau and Göttingen, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau in 1864.

Central German football championship

The number of small states in the Thuringia region formed the new state of that name, with the exception of Coburg, which joined Bavaria.

Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Christian Ernst died childless and all his inheritance has taken by his half-brother, Franz Josias.

Christian Friedrich Witt

He moved to Gotha to take up a post as chamber organist to the court in June 1686; he remained there for the rest of his life.

City of Coburg

Initial efforts at local government saw the Sydney Road Trust set up in 1840, which boasted John Fawkner as a founding member, but the first incorporation in the area was the Pentridge District Road Board in 1859, which was renamed Coburg on 21 January 1869, after a Royal visit from Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Clarence House

It passed to his sister Princess Augusta Sophia and, following her death in 1840, to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent.

Coburg Cemetery

Coburg Cemetery is located in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston, Victoria, Australia on the boundary of Coburg.

Coburg, Victoria

The suburb's most famous landmark is HM Prison Pentridge, which has recently been redeveloped into a housing estate.

Couper baronets

He was a Colonel in the Army and fought in the Peninsular War, served as Military Secretary to the Governor Generals of Canada, Sir James Kempt and Lord Durham, and was Comptroller of the Household and Equerry to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Duchess of Kent's Annuity Act 1838

It empowered the Queen to grant an annuity of £30,000 to her mother, the Duchess of Kent, on the condition that all previously existing annuities to the Duchess were to cease.

Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen

In the reshuffle of Ernestine territories that occurred following the extinction of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg line upon the death of Duke Frederick IV in 1825, Duke Bernhard II of Saxe-Meiningen received the lands of the former Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen as well as the Saalfeld territory of the former Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld duchy.

Elector Bible

The Elector Bible is a German language folio-sized, Martin Luther translation of the new and old testament of the Bible that was authorized by Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and printed by Wolfgang Endterin in Nuremberg, Germany from 1641 to 1758.

Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha

He is portrayed positively as a figure in the fictional 1632 series, also known as the 1632-verse or Ring of Fire series, an alternate history book series, created, primarily co-written, and coordinated by historian Eric Flint

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

In 1783 Ernest became a member of the Bavarian Illuminati under the name of Quintus Severus and/or Timoleon, and in 1784 he was created Supervisor of Abessinien (a name for Upper Saxony).

Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia

Matilda received as dowry out of Ottonian possessions lands in Thuringia and Franconia (the East Frankish territories of Coburg, Salz and Orlamünde), while her husband gave her as dowry the family estate of Brauweiler.

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

In Ebersdorf on 13 June 1777, Franz Frederick married Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf und Lobenstein.

Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

This was finally accomplished on 24 February 1680; Frederick kept Gotha, Tenneberg, Wachsenburg, Ichtershausen, Georgenthal, Schwarzwald, Reinhardsbrunn, Volkenrode, Oberkranichfeld, Orlamünde, Altenburg and Tonna.

Free State of Coburg

He received 1.5 million Marks as his compensation for his following properties – approximately 4500 hectares (11,120 acres) of forests, numerous buildings and individual properties as well as the art treasures of the Veste Coburg, the Veste’s courtyard garden museum, his personal library, the Ducal Theater, the Schloss Rosenau and its estate, the Veste Coburg, the Schloss Ehrenburg, and the State Archives of Coburg.

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll (8 October 1750, Veilsdorf bei Hildburghausen - 30 March 1816, Gotha) was a German sculptor.

Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg

As part of the Belgian Corps under Field Marshal Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld he played a decisive role in the action at Avesnes-le-Sec and later at the Battle of Fleurus (1794).

Funds for Endangered Parrots

The venue in 2000 was the bird show at Achern, in 2001 the DEU-BE-LUX bird show at Bitburg, in 2002 the bird show at Bielefeld-Senne, in 2003 the bird show at Coburg, in 2004 the Walsrode Bird Park, in 2005 the Ornithea bird show in the Porz suburb of Cologne, in 2006 the NiederRheinPark Plantaria at Kevelaer and in 2007 Leipzig Zoo.

Gianni Nicchi

Authorities issued 52 arrest warrants against the top echelon of Cosa Nostra in the city of Palermo (Operation Gotha).

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

Then in 1719 he married, and the next year took up an appointment in Gotha, where he worked until his death for the dukes Frederick II and Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, composing a cantata each week.

From 1730 the Kapellmeister of the court at Gotha also wrote for Sondershausen.

Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt

He participated in the siege of Gotha, which was necessary to arrest the deposed Duke John Frederick II of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach, who had been banned for failure to deliver Wilhelm von Grumbach at the Emperor's demand.

Herald Sun Tour

The first King of the Mountain and Sprint champion was Jack (John) McDonough from Coburg.

Hohnstein Castle

Like the Thuringian landgraves, the Honstein clan rapidly amassed a considerable amount of territory, which included the regions around Arnstadt and Gotha in the Thuringian Basin.

House of Wettin

It was only in the 19th century that one of the many Ernestine branches, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, regained importance as the "stud of Europe", by ascending the thrones of Belgium (in 1831), Portugal (1853-1910), Bulgaria (1908–1946) and the United Kingdom (in 1901).

Ilona Hubay

In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial library (Landesbibliothek) in Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a curator of the collection of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

Johann Stegner

Johann Stegner, the son of a construction worker, was born on 20 December 1866 in Frohnlach, District of Sonnefeld, in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha but he was raised in Scheuerfeld, then a village west of Coburg, in the same Duchy.

Joseph Kürschner

Joseph Kürschner (born in Gotha, 20 September 1853; died on a journey to Huben, 29 July 1902) was a German author and editor most often cited for his critical edition of classics from German literature.

Klaus-Peter Göpfert

Klaus-Peter Göpfert (born 22 October 1948 in Coburg) is a German former wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Medal of Honor: Frontline

Lt. Patterson infiltrates the secret airfield outside Gotha where the fighter is held, cripples German aircraft production, fights and kills Sturmgeist, and escapes the airfield using the HO-IX.

Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

The Saxe-Coburg family was perceived to be too closely linked with British interests.

Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg, 26 December 1737 – Coburg, 26 February 1815)

Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

The bond between the two families was further strengthened three years later, when her brother, Francis Josias, married her husband's sister, Anna Sophia.

Reinhardsbrunn

Reinhardsbrunn in Friedrichroda near Gotha, in Thuringia in Germany, is the site of a formerly prominent Benedictine abbey extant between 1085 and 1525, and, from 1827, of a royal castle and park of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family.

Richard Colvin Cox

The following year, Cox served in the Sixth Constabulary Regiment of the United States Army, situated at the time in Coburg, Germany.

Robert Henry Meade

Following his return, he was in attendance on the Queen during her visit to Coburg later in 1862.

Schloss Rosenau

Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, the former summer residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Simeon II

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, formerly Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria (born 1937)

South Baddesley

Within a few weeks the fame of the tree was such that people came from far and wide to listen to the tree, including Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta.

Zeppelin-Staaken Riesenflugzeuge

The first Zeppelin-Staaken R-planes were designed by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, aided by Robert Bosch GmbH (engineers), the V.G.O. I, (Versuchsbau Gotha-Ost), was built at Gothaer Waggonfabrik due to lack of facilities at the Zeppelin works, hence the V.G.O. Designator.


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Bulgarian royal family

Coburg Peak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian royal house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.