House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
| House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry |
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|---|---|
| Country |
Habsburg Empire Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of Bulgaria Empire of Brazil |
| Parent house |
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (male line) House of Koháry (female line) |
| Titles |
Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha King of Portugal and the Algarves (1837–1910) Prince of Bulgaria (1887–1908) Tsar of Bulgaria (1908–1946) |
| Founded | 1826 |
| Founder |
Prince Ferdinand and Princess Maria Antonia |
| Final ruler | Prince Philipp; no family head since abolition of fideicommiss |
| Dissolution | 1938 |
| Ethnicity | Germans, Austrians, Hungarians |
| Cadet branches |
Braganza-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Bulgarian Royal Family |
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry is the Catholic cadet branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It was founded after the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág. Among its descendants were the last four kings of Portugal (Pedro V, Luis I, Carlos I, Manuel II) and the last three Tsars of Bulgaria (Ferdinand I, Boris III, Simeon II).
After the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág in January 1816 and the death of his father-in-law, Prince Ferencz József Koháry de Csábrág, in 1826, Prince Ferdinand inherited the Hungarian princely estate of Koháry and converted to Roman Catholicism.
The descendants of this branch managed to marry an imperial princess of Brazil, an archduchess of Austria, a royal princess of "the French", a royal princess of Belgium, and a royal princess of Saxony. A of this branch, also named Ferdinand, became Prince, and then Tsar, of Bulgaria, and his descendants continued to rule there until 1946. The current head of the House of Bulgaria, the former Tsar Simeon II who was deposed and exiled after World War II, goes by the name Simeon Sakskoburggotski and served as Bulgaria's prime minister from 2001 to 2005.
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