Mária Antónia, Prinzessin Koháry de Csábrág

Cabrad Castle

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 et Szitnya

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(2 July 1797 – 25 September 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the ancestress of many European monarchs.

Family and marriage

She was born in Vienna

Vienna

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, the only daughter of Prince Franz Josef of Kohary

Ferencz József Koháry de Csábrág

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, of whose fortune she was the only heiress, and his wife Countess Maria Antoinetta Josefa von Waldstein-Wartenburg

Maria Antoinetta Josefa von Waldstein-Wartenburg

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On 30 November 1815, in Vienna, she married Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They became the parents of four children:

• Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  Ferdinand II of Portugal
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   (later Ferdinand II of Portugal) (1816-1885)
• Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818-1881)
• Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1822-1857)
• Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1824-1884)

The couple were the ancestors of Pedro V of Portugal

Pedro V of Portugal

* Duke of Barcelos* Marquis of Vila Viçosa* Count of Ourém* Count of Barcelos* Count of Arraiolos* Count of Guimarães-Honours:* Knight of the Garter* Knight of the Golden Fleece-Ancestry:...

, Luis I of Portugal

Luís I of Portugal

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, Carlos I of Portugal

Carlos I of Portugal

-Assassination:On 1 February 1908 the royal family returned from the palace of Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. They travelled by train to Barreiro and, from there, they took a steamer to cross the Tagus River and disembarked at Cais do Sodré in central Lisbon. On their way to the royal palace, the open...

, Manoel II of Portugal, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony

Frederick Augustus III of Saxony

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, Charles I of Austria, Otto von Habsburg

Otto von Habsburg

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, Carol II of Romania

Carol II of Romania

Carol II reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria...

, Mihai I of Romania

Michael I of Romania

Michael was the last King of Romania. He reigned from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930, and again from 6 September 1940 until 30 December 1947 when he was forced, by the Communist Party of Romania , to abdicate to the Soviet armies of occupation...

, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

, Boris III of Bulgaria

Boris III of Bulgaria

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, Simeon II of Bulgaria, and Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris

Henri, comte de Paris, duc de France

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She died in Vienna in 1862.

Ancestors

Sources

• Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya Family