Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (17 April 1838 – 13 October 1908) was a princess of

Saxe-Altenburg Saxe-Altenburg (german: Sachsen-Altenburg, links=no) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in present-day Thuringia. It was one of the smallest of the German states with an area of 1323 square kilometer ...

by birth and Duchess of

Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

by marriage.

Biography

Antoinette was the second child of

Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg Prince Eduard 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 Frederic ...

(1804-1852) from his first marriage with Amalie (1815-1841), daughter of

Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (20 February 1785 – 11 March 1853) was the reigning Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen from 1831 to 1848. In 1833, Karl summoned a constitutional assembly (''Landtag'') and promulgated a constitutiona ...

. She married on 22 April 1854 in

Altenburg Altenburg () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region betw ...

the future

Friedrich I, Duke of Anhalt , image = Friedrich I Anhalt.jpg , caption = Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt , succession = Duke of Anhalt , reign = 22 May 1871 – 24 January 1904 , coronation = , predecessor = Leopold IV , successor ...

(1831-1904). The marriage was for dynastic reasons and Antoinette married one of the richest German princes. On the occasion of the marriage was coined a commemorative medal.

Issue

Antoinette and Friedrich had six children: #

Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt , spouse =Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel , issue = Antoinette, Princess Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe , house =House of Ascania , father =Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt , mother ...

(1855–1886), married

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel Princess ''Elizabeth'' Charlotte Alexandra Mary Louise of Hesse-Kassel (german: Elisabeth Charlotte Alexandra Marie Luise von Hessen-Kassel; 13 June 1861 – 7 June 1955), was a Princess of Hesse-Kassel by birth and, by her marriage to Leopold, H ...

in 1884. #

Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt Frederick II (; 19 August 185621 April 1918) was the Duke of Anhalt from 1904 until 1918. Early life He was born in Dessau in 1856, he was the second son of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Al ...

(1856–1918), married Princess Marie of Baden in 1889. #

Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt (7 September 1857 – 20 July 1933) was the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1904 to 1914 as the spouse of Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Family She was born Princess Elisabeth Ma ...

(1857–1933), married Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg in Strelitz in 1877. #

Eduard, Duke of Anhalt Eduard Georg Wilhelm, Duke of Anhalt (german: Herzog Eduard Georg Wilhelm Maximilian von Anhalt; 18 April 1861 – 13 September 1918) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and the penultimate ruler of the Duchy of Anhalt from April to Sep ...

(1861–1918), married Princess Luise of Saxe-Altenburg in 1895. #

Prince Aribert of Anhalt Prince Aribert Joseph Alexander of Anhalt (18 June 1866 – 24 December 1933) was regent of Anhalt from September to November 1918 on behalf of his underage nephew Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt. As regent, following the German revolution, he abdi ...

(1866–1933), married

Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (Franziska Josepha Louise Augusta Marie Christina Helena; 12 August 1872 – 8 December 1956) was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Early life Princess Marie Louise was born at Cumberland Lodge in Wi ...

in 1891. #

Princess Alexandra of Anhalt Princess Alexandra Therese Marie of Anhalt (4 April 1868 - 26 August 1958) was a Princess of Anhalt and member of the House of Ascania by birth. As the wife of Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg, she was a Princess of House of Schwarzburg, Schwarzburg by ...

(1868–1958), married

Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg Günther Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg (3 June 1860 – 24 March 1926) was the head of the House of Schwarzburg and pretender to the principalities of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Early life He was born in Rudolstadt a ...

in 1897.

Ancestry

References

House of Saxe-Altenburg House of Ascania Duchesses of Anhalt 1838 births 1908 deaths Princesses of Saxe-Altenburg German people of French descent Royal reburials {{Germany-royal-stub