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unusual facts about Hubertus, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha



Alfred Park

Built in 1870 to mark Prince Alfred's visit to the city, with an area of 133 acres, it is the biggest park in Allahabad.

Anastasia, Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

HSH Hereditary Prince Carl Friedrich Hubertus Georg Eduardo Paolo Nicolo Franz Alois Ignatius Hieronymus Maria (30 September 1966-24 April 2010); married Stephanie Freiin von Brenken on 8 August 1998 in Brenken, Germany, and had issue

Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Although Prince Andreas is the dynastic senior male line descendant of Prince Albert he is not the heir to his grandfather's suspended British title Duke of Albany; instead Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha would inherit the dukedom as heir-male of the last Duke of Albany through his grandfather Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Ben Knapen

Hubertus Petrus Maria "Ben" Knapen (born 6 January 1951 in Kaatsheuvel) is a former Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

Carl Walther

Carl Wilhelm Freund Walther (22 November 1858 – 9 July 1915) was a German gunsmith from Zella-Mehlis, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who founded the firm of Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen, generally known as Walther, in 1886.

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.

Clarendon Tower

The quality of the hotel was recognised in 1869 when the Duke of Edinburgh stayed there and bestowed on Oram the title of 'Hotel Keeper by Appointment to His Royal Highness Prince Alfred the Duke of Edinburgh'.

Count of Flanders

=== House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ===

Francis VI de Beauharnais

In 1802, François de Beauharnais married Louise von Cohausen (1775–1822), daughter of Karl Caspar Hubertus, reichsritter von Cohausen, and of Elisabeth Umbscheiden von Ehrencron.

Freudenberg

Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1906–1984), German historian and an early opponent of Adolf Hitler

Fritz Seitz

Fritz (Friedrich) Seitz (12 June 1848, Günthersleben-Wechmar, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 22 May 1918) was a German Romantic Era composer.

George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Amongst her children was Charles Edward, last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Herren-Sulzbach

In 1816, Herren-Sulzbach passed under the terms of the Congress of Vienna to the Principality of Lichtenberg, a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which as of 1826 became the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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).

Hubertus

According to the hagiographies of Hubert, this act was simultaneously revealed to the pope in a vision, together with an injunction to appoint Hubert bishop of Maastricht.

Jim B. Taylor

Taylor was present when in 1867 Prince Alfred, son of Queen Victoria, called at the Cape aboard the screw frigate HMS Galatea (1859–1883) on his voyage around the world.

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.

Johann Stegner (20 December 1866, Frohnlach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 7 January 1954, Coburg, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Karl Borsch

The inner red shield displays at top a deer antler, the symbol of Saint Hubertus, who is the patron saint of the home parish of Bishop Borsch in Kempen.

Little Lon district

In 1867 Police Commissioner Standish introduced the visiting Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, to a brothel run in Stephen Street by Sarah Fraser.

Mona Vale, Tasmania

In 1868, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh visited, and later the then Duke of York (future King George VI) and the Duchess of York visited in 1927, with then Princess Elizabeth (Elizabeth II).

Nicholas Chevalier

In 1869 he joined the H.M.S. Galatea as an artist with the Duke of Edinburgh, on the voyage to the East and back to London with stops in Tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, China, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and India.

Prince Adrian of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

He married secondly, also morganatically, in Bern on 11 July 1997 to Gertrud Krieg (born Olten, Solothurn, 18 March 1958), without issue.

Prince Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844–1900), second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert

Prince Alfred Hamlet

While Goosen was busy measuring out his plots, Queen Victoria's son Prince Alfred visited the Cape Colony.

Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

In Saint-Cloud on 20 April 1843 August married Princess Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of Louis Philippe, King of the French.

In Saint-Cloud on 20 April 1843 August married Princess Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and of his wife, Princess Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies.

Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

# Felicitas Franziska Johanna Maria Gabriela Elisabeth Pauline Helene Stephanie Leopoldine Alexandra Sophie Mathilde Josepha Anna Karoline Immaculata Emanuela (b. Sorengo, 6 April 1958), married on 15 November 1987 to Sergei Trotzky, and has issue.

Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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

Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

#Joseph Ferdinand Maria Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga (Petrópolis, 21 May 1869 – Vienna, 13 August 1888).

Prince Ludwig August Maria Eudes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (8 August 1845 – 14 September 1907), known in Brazil as Dom Luís Augusto, was a German prince of the Koháry branch of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and an imperial Brazilian Admiral.

Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

On May 1, 1896, Ludwig was given the rank of First lieutenant, and, on March 29, 1900, he was given leadership of the First Tiroler Jäger-Regiment in Innsbruck.

Princess Mathilde of Bavaria died of lung disease in 1906 in Davos, leaving her husband with two small children.

Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

In Munich on 15 December 1930 Prince Rainer married, firstly, Johanna Károlyi de Károly-Patty.

Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Her eldest son, Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was named in an unsavory manner as part of the custody suit over Gloria Vanderbilt ("Little Gloria") between her mother Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan (1904–1965) and the child's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Alonso María Cristino Justo (28 May 1912 Madrid, Spain–18 November 1936 Spain); Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Royal Family eventually relented, and Beatrice and her family were allowed to return to Spain where they established their home at an estate in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Juliane Henriette Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Coburg, 23 September 1781 – Elfenau, near Bern, Switzerland, 15 August 1860), also known as Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia, was a German princess of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (after 1826, the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) who became the wife of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia.

Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland

Madeleine was christened at The Royal Palace Church on 31 August 1982, her godparents being her father's maternal cousin the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, her maternal grandfather Walther Sommerlath, her father's paternal cousin Princess Benedikte of Denmark, and her paternal aunt Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson.

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

She was buried at the Chapelle royale de Dreux, the Royal basilica of the House of Orléans, in 1979, having been transferred from the Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo in Weybridge.

Renate Hoy

She was in such films as Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Missile to the Moon, The Golden Blade, The Birds and the Bees, The Sea Chase, A Certain Smile, and had a leading role in the German classic German film Schloß Hubertus.

Richard Graf von Schaesberg-Tannheim

Richard Ferdinand Maximilian Ignatius Joseph Valentin Hubertus Maria Graf von Schaesberg-Tannheim (January 7, 1884 in Tannheim – September 20, 1953 in Surenburg, Hörstel) was a German Graf and horse rider who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Saint-Hubert, Quebec

The city's namesake is derived from Hubertus, who later became commonly known as St. Hubert.

Self-proclaimed monarchy

On 4 June 1831, a National Congress proclaimed HSH Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony as first King of the Belgians.

St. Augustin, Coburg

On 15 July 1909, the Protestant Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married the Roman Catholic Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, in a civil ceremony at Schloss Rosenau, followed by a Roman Catholic religious ceremony at St. Augustin and a Lutheran one in Schloss Callenberg.

Taxis-Bordogna-Valnigra

The descendants of Lamoral, Baron Taxis di Bordogna e Valnigra (1900–1966) from his marriage to Princess Theresia Christiane of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1902–1990), daughter of Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, are known by the family name Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança.

The Aesthetics of Resistance

Visual artists such as Hubertus Giebe and composers such as Kalevi Aho or Helmut Oehring have taken up motives from The Aesthetics of Resistance in their paintings and compositions.

The Alfred Hospital

Moves were already underway to establish a second hospital when Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, in Australia on a royal visit, was shot in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.

Worshipful Company of Clothworkers

Famous Clothworkers included King James I, Samuel Pepys, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, George Peabody, Sydney Waterlow, Edward VII, Lord Kelvin, Viscount Slim, Robert Menzies and the Duke of Kent.


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