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Alexander I of Bulgaria

Alexander I
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Prince of Bulgaria
Reign 29 April 1879 – 7 September 1886
Predecessor Constantine II (as emperor of Bulgaria before the Ottoman occupation)
Successor Ferdinand I
Born (1857-04-05)5 April 1857
Verona, Lombardy–Venetia
Died 23 October 1893(1893-10-23) (aged 36)
Graz, Austria-Hungary
Burial Battenberg Mausoleum
Spouse Johanna Loisinger
Issue Count Asen of Hartenau
Countess Tsvetana of Hartenau
Full name
Alexander Joseph von Battenberg
Александър Йозеф фон Батенберг
House Battenberg
Father Alexander Ludwig
Mother Julia von Hauke
Religion Lutheran
Full name
Alexander Joseph von Battenberg
Александър Йозеф фон Батенберг
Styles of
Alexander I of Bulgaria
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Reference style His Serene Highness
Spoken style Your Serene Highness
Alternative style Sir

Alexander Joseph GCB (Bulgarian: Александър I Батенберг; 5 April 1857 – 23 October 1893), known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince (knyaz) of modern Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886.

Alexander was the second son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by the latter's morganatic marriage with Countess Julia von Hauke. The Countess and her descendants gained the title of Princess of Battenberg (derived from an old residence of the Grand Dukes of Hesse) and the style Durchlaucht ("Serene Highness") in 1858. Prince Alexander was a nephew of Russia's Tsar Alexander II, who had married a sister of Prince Alexander of Hesse; his mother, a daughter of Count Moritz von Hauke, had been lady-in-waiting to the Tsaritsa. Alexander was known to his family, and many later biographers, as "Sandro" and "Drino".

Alexander's brother, Prince Louis of Battenberg, married Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Their children included Queen Louise of Sweden, Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Princess Alice, the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.


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