The duchy was created by the Division of Erfurt in 1572 which implemented a decision of the Diet of Speyer in 1570 to separate Coburg and Eisenach from the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar and give them to John Casimir and John Ernest, the two sons of John Frederick II.
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John Ernest soon withdrew and returned to his hunting lodge in Marksuhl.
The former Ernestine duchies continued briefly as republics before merging to form the state of Thuringia in 1920, except for Saxe-Coburg, which became part of Bavaria.
Coburg | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Saxe-Hildburghausen | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Saxe-Weimar | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld | Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg | Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha | Saxe-Lauenburg | Maurice de Saxe | Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg | William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar | Melinda Saxe | Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Coburg, Victoria | Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen | Schloss Rosenau, Coburg | Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen | House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach | Veste Coburg | Saxe-Coburg | Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg | Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen | Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg | John IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg | Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen | Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha |
Karl Daniel Adolph Douai was born February 22, 1819 in Altenburg, Thuringia in the Duchy of Saxon-Altenburg, the son of a school teacher.
Prince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe (German: Alexander Prinz von Sachsen-Gessaphe Polish: Aleksander książę Saskogessapski; born Alexander de Afif 12 February 1954), is the adopted heir of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, and a businessman with Lebanese, Mexican and German roots.
Amway Australia has four business centres opened in Loganholme, Queensland; Castle Hill, New South Wales; Coburg, Victoria and Kewdale, Western Australia.
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.
Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (1488–1563), daughter of Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
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 Ernst died childless and all his inheritance has taken by his half-brother, Franz Josias.
Christiane Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (15 October 1733 in Neustadt an der Aisch – 8 October 1757 in Jagdschloss Seidingstadt in Straufhain) was a member of the Kulmbach-Bayreuth branch of the Franconian line of the House of Hohenzollern and was, by marriage, Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
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.
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 is located in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston, Victoria, Australia on the boundary of Coburg.
The suburb's most famous landmark is HM Prison Pentridge, which has recently been redeveloped into a housing estate.
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.
Charlotte married Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (later Duke of Saxe-Altenburg), youngest child of Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen and his third wife Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, on 3 September 1785 in Hildburghausen.
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.
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.
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.
Bach was hired in 1708 by the ruling duke of Saxe-Weimar, Wilhelm Ernst, as an organist and member of the court orchestra; he was particularly encouraged to make use of his unique talents with the organ.
Francis (Franz) Huebschmann (born in Riethnordhausen, Grand Duchy of Weimar, 19 April 1817; died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 21 March 1880) was a noted surgeon of the American Civil War for the Union Army and a Wisconsin physician and politician.
In Ebersdorf on 13 June 1777, Franz Frederick married Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf und Lobenstein.
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.
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).
Fritz (Friedrich) Seitz (12 June 1848, Günthersleben-Wechmar, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 22 May 1918) was a German Romantic Era composer.
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.
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.
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.
The first King of the Mountain and Sprint champion was Jack (John) McDonough from Coburg.
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, 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 Georg received an income from the new duchy of Saxe-Eisenach and took his residence in the small town of Marksuhl.
Joseph Georg Friedrich Ernst Karl, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (Hildburghausen, 27 August 1789 – Altenburg, 25 November 1868), was a duke of Saxe-Altenburg.
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.
Joseph Maria Frederick Wilhelm of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duke in Saxony (5 October 1702 – Hildburghausen, 4 January 1787), was an Austrian General and Field Marshal.
The Saxe-Coburg family was perceived to be too closely linked with British interests.
Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg, 26 December 1737 – Coburg, 26 February 1815)
The bond between the two families was further strengthened three years later, when her brother, Francis Josias, married her husband's sister, Anna Sophia.
When Duke Henry went against a gentleman's agreement with his brother William and married Ursula of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1569, he had forsake sharing the government of the principality and was compensated instead with the Amt of Dannenberg and the Klosteramt of Scharnebeck.
Six marshals of France have been given the even more exalted rank of "marshal general of France" (maréchal général de France): Biron, Lesdiguières, Turenne, Villars, Saxe and Soult.
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.
The following year, Cox served in the Sixth Constabulary Regiment of the United States Army, situated at the time in Coburg, Germany.
Following his return, he was in attendance on the Queen during her visit to Coburg later in 1862.
In the beginning, the Principality had the District and city of Hildburghausen, the District and city of Heldburg, the District and city of Eisfeld, the District of Veilsdorf and the half of the District of Schalkau.
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The lands of Saxe-Hildburghausen went to the sixth son, who became Ernest II, the first Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
The lands of Saxe-Römhild went to the fourth son, who became Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (1650–1710).
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Saxe-Römhild (German: Sachsen-Römhild) was an Ernestine duchy in the southern foothills of the Thuringian Forest.
Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, the former summer residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
After several conquests and plundering during the Thirty Years War the castle was held in 1776 and re-attached residence of the Ernestine dukes of Saxe-Hildburghausen and finally in 1871 became the property of the ducal house of Meiningen.
Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony (given names: Andreas Michael Friedrich Hans Armin Siegfried Hubertus; born 21 March 1943) has been the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha since 1998.
Coburg Peak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian royal house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Christian Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Saalfeld, 18 August 1683 – Saalfeld, 4 September 1745), was a duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Saalfeld, 8 March 1724 – Coburg, 8 September 1800), was a Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Saalfeld, 25 September 1697 – Rodach, 16 September 1764) was a duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
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.
Many marches supposedly written for several cavalry regiments by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, who was also the Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the Duke of Saxony are actually by Walch, including the British regiment march, the Regimental quick march of the Somerset Light Infantry.
When the village of Kappeln passed to the Saxe-Coburg Principality of Lichtenberg in the 19th century, the church community remained organizationally with the church community of Meisenheim.
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853 – 1920), daughter of the above, also a Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Adrian Vinzenz Eduard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Coburg, 18 October 1955 – 30 August 2011, Bern) was the fourth child and second son of Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874–1899), eldest child of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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.
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (born 1943), daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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.
Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (9 August 1693 in Saalfeld – 4 December 1727 in Rudolstadt), was a Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth, and Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt by marriage.
The close bond with the very pious court at Rudolstadt also meant that pietism gained a foothold in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Princess Ernestine Friederike Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen (22 February 1760, Hildburghausen – 28 October 1776, Coburg), was a Princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen by birth, and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
On 6 March 1776, she married at the age of 16 in Hildburghausen the hereditary prince and later Duke Francis Frederick Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
She was born Princess Theresia Christiane Maria Josepha Ignatia Benizia Michaela Gabriele Raphaele Gonzaga of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the Thüringen in Austria-Hungary.
When in 1638 the Ernestine Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Coburg branch became extinct upon the death of Duke John Ernest, Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar inherited large parts of his estates.
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.