Prince August | |||||
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Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duke of Saxony |
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Prince August
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2nd Head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry |
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Tenure | 27 August 1851 – 26 July 1881 | ||||
Predecessor | Prince Ferdinand | ||||
Successor | Prince Philipp | ||||
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Vienna |
13 June 1818||||
Died | 26 July 1881 Ebenthal Castle |
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Burial | St. Augustin, Coburg | ||||
Spouse | Princess Clémentine of Orléans | ||||
Issue |
Prince Philipp Prince Ludwig August Clotilde, Archduchess Joseph Karl of Austria Amalie, Duchess in Bavaria Ferdinand I of Bulgaria |
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House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry | ||||
Father | Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
Mother | Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
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August Ludwig Viktor |
August Victor Louis of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: August Viktor Ludwig; 13 June 1818 – 26 July 1881), was a German prince of the Catholic House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was a General Major in the army of Saxony and the owner of Čábráď and Štiavnica, both in modern-day Slovakia.
Prince August Viktor Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was the second son of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld. He was born in Vienna on 13 June 1818 and baptised at St. Stephan Cathedral on the 16th of that month. His God Parents were his paternal grandmother, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, his aunts, Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Louise, Duchess of Saxe Coburg. Following the 1826 re-distribution in the House of Wettin of the Ernestine duchies, his dynastic suffix became "of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha". His mother was Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, the daughter and heiress of Ferenc József, Prince Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya. When Antonia's father died in 1826, she inherited his estates in Slovakia and Hungary. Prince August was a younger brother of King-Consort Ferdinand II of Portugal, a nephew of Leopold I of Belgium, and a first cousin of Britain's Queen Victoria, and her husband, Prince Albert.