Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1757–1831)
Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1757–1831)
German duchess. Born on January 9, 1757; died on November 16, 1831; daughter of Henry XXIV, count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, and Caroline Ernestine, countess Erbach-Schonberg (b. 1727); grandmother of Queen Victoria ; married Francis Frederick (1750–1806), duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; children: Sophie (b. 1778); Antoinette Saxe-Coburg (1779–1824); Anna Juliana of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781–1860); Ernest I, duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1784); Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg (b. 1785); Victoria of Coburg (1786–1861, mother of Queen Victoria); Marianne (b. 1788); Leopold I, king of Belgium (b. 1790); Maximilian (b. 1792).
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