Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
Tenure27 August 1851 – 26 July 1881
PredecessorPrince Ferdinand
SuccessorPrince Philipp
BornPrinz August von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld
(1818-06-13)13 June 1818
Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died26 July 1881(1881-07-26) (aged 63)
Ebenthal Castle, Ebenthal
Burial
St. Augustin Cathedral, Coburg
Spouse
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(m. 1843)​
Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya

August Victor Louis of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: August Viktor Ludwig; 13 June 1818 – 26 July 1881), was a German prince of the

General Major in the Royal Saxon Army and the owner of Čábráď and Štiavnica, both in modern-day Slovakia
.

Life

Born Prince August Viktor Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, he was the second son of

Prince Albert
.

In

Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. The couple lived in Palais Coburg in Vienna.[2] He also owned Bürglaß Castle in Coburg. When his mother died in 1862, he inherited her extensive landholdings in Hungary and became one of the largest landowners in the country.[3] He was an honorary member of the Hungarian Geological Society.[4]

St. Augustin in Coburg

Prince August built a Catholic church in Coburg. It was

consecrated in 1860 and was named St. Augustin. He was later buried in the crypt below this church, as were his wife, his three sons, his daughter-in-law Leopoldina
and her four sons.

August was a recipient of the

Order of the Tower and Sword, the French Legion of Honour and the Belgian royal Order of Leopold. Furthermore, he was a knight of honour and devotion in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[5]

Memorial

In 1885, the Austrian sculptor Viktor Tilgner was commissioned to create a memorial for the late Prince August. The sculpture still stands on private land in Ebenthal owned by the Saxe-Coburg ducal family. The base of the sculpture contains a Latin inscription and a text in French: Auguste Louis Victor Duc de Saxe Prince de Saxe Cobourg Gotha. À mon mari bien-aimé. 1843 - 1881. Clémentine. ("August Louis Victor, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. To my beloved husband." — 1843 is not the year August was born (he was born in 1818), but rather the year he married Clémentine).

Marriage and issue

In

Louis Philippe, King of the French
. They had five children:

  1. Ferdinand Philipp Maria August Raphael (b. Paris, 28 March 1844 - d. Coburg, 3 July 1921).
  2. Ludwig August Maria Eudes (b. Château d'Eu, 8 August 1845 - d. Karlsbad, 14 September 1907), married on 15 December 1864 to Princess Leopoldina of Brazil.
  3. Marie Adelaide Amalie Clotilde (b. Neuilly, 8 July 1846 - d. Alcsút, Hungary, 3 June 1927), married on 12 May 1864 to Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria.
  4. Marie Luise Franziska Amalie (b. Coburg, 23 October 1848 - d. Schloß Biederstein, 6 May 1894), married on 20 September 1875 to Maximilian Emanuel, Duke in Bavaria.
  5. Czar of Bulgaria on 22 September [O.S.
    5 October] 1908.

On 2 May 1881, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria bestowed upon August and his descendants the style of Hoheit ("Highness"), a higher style in Germany than Durchlaucht ("Serene Highness"), which Ernestine princes were usually entitled to. The reason for the grant was that eight days later Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (younger sister of August's daughter-in-law Louise) was to marry Franz Joseph's son Crown Prince Rudolf; Franz Joseph considered it appropriate that his son's in-laws have a higher rank at the Austrian court.[citation needed]

Honours

He received the following awards:[6]

Ancestry

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Prince August, 3rd Prince of Koháry.

Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.matricula.data.icar-us.eu/php/view2.php?ar_id=3670&be_id=2349&ve_id=726778&count=[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Palais Coburg". Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  3. ^ Friedrich Maximilian Oertel: Genealogische Tafeln zur Staatengeschichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, F.A. Brockhaus, 1857, p. 96
  4. ^ Ferenc von Kubinyi and Imre Vahot: Ungarn und Siebenbürgen in Bildern, G. Emich, 1834, S. 31
  5. ^ Adreßhandbuch des Herzogthums Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, Meusel, 1854, p. 18
  6. ^ Staatshandbuch für die Herzogthümer Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1865). "Genealogie des Herzogliche Hauses", p. 11. Gotha: Thienemann.
  7. ^ Boettger, T. F. "Chevaliers de la Toisón d'Or - Knights of the Golden Fleece". La Confrérie Amicale. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  8. ^ H. Tarlier (1854). Almanach royal officiel, publié, exécution d'un arrête du roi (in French). Vol. 1. p. 37.
  9. ^ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1837), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 11
  10. ISBN 978-2-35077-135-9
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  11. ^ Bragança, Jose Vicente de (2014). "Agraciamentos Portugueses Aos Príncipes da Casa Saxe-Coburgo-Gota" [Portuguese Honours awarded to Princes of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]. Pro Phalaris (in Portuguese). 9–10: 7. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  12. ^ Staatshandbuch für den Freistaat Sachsen (1867) (in German), "Königliche Ritter-Orden", p. 4
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