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Princess Antoinette of Saxe Altenburg

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Name
  
Princess of


House
  
House of Wettin

Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg

Born
  
17 April 1838 Bamberg (
1838-04-17
)

Issue
  
Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt Elisabeth, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Eduard, Duke of Anhalt Prince Aribert of Anhalt Alexandra, Princess of Schwarzburg

Father
  
Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg

Mother
  
Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Died
  
October 13, 1908, Berchtesgaden, Germany

Spouse
  
Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (m. 1854)

Children
  
Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Eduard, Duke of Anhalt

Parents
  
Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Similar People
  
Joachim Ernst - Duke of Anhalt, Princess Marie‑Auguste of Anhalt, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg‑Strelitz

Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (17 April 1838 – 13 October 1908) was a princess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth and Duchess of Anhalt by marriage.

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Biography

Antoinette was the second child of Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg (1804-1852) from his first marriage with Amalie (1815-1841), daughter of Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

She married on 22 April 1854 in Altenburg the future Friedrich I, Duke of Anhalt (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:

  1. Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (1855–1886), married Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel in 1884.
  2. Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1856–1918), married Princess Marie of Baden in 1889.
  3. Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt (1857–1933), married Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg in Strelitz in 1877.
  4. Eduard, Duke of Anhalt (1861–1918), married Princess Luise of Saxe-Altenburg in 1895.
  5. Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1866–1933), married Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein in 1891.
  6. Princess Alexandra of Anhalt (1868–1958), married Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg in 1897.

References

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