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Princess Maria Antonia Koháry of Csábrág and Szitnya

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Hungarian noblewoman The native form of this personal name is Koháry Mária Antónia Gabriella. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Princess Mária Antónia
Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Born(1797-07-02)2 July 1797
Buda, Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died25 September 1862(1862-09-25) (aged 65)
Palais Coburg, Vienna, Empire of Austria
BurialMausoleum at Friedhof am Glockenberg [de], Coburg
Spouse Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ​ ​(m. 1815; died 1851)
IssueFerdinand II of Portugal
August, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
Princess Victoria, Duchess of Nemours
Prince Leopold
Names
Mária Antónia Gabriella Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
HouseKoháry
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry (co-founder)
FatherFerenc József, Prince Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
MotherCountess Maria Antonia von Waldstein-Wartenberg

Princess Mária Antónia Gabriella Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya (Hungarian: csábrági és szitnyai herceg Koháry Mária Antónia Gabriella; 2 July 1797 – 25 September 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the ancestor of several European monarchs. She was the sole heiress of the House of Koháry, which belonged to one of the three largest landowners in Hungary.

Early life

She was born in Buda, as Countess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, the second child of Franz Josef, Count Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya and his wife, Countess Maria Antonia von Waldstein-Wartenberg. Her older brother Franz died, aged two, on 19 April 1795. This left Antónia, from the moment of her birth, as the sole heir to the vast fortune of the House of Koháry.

Life

On 30 November 1815, in Vienna, Maria Antonia married Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was an elder brother of Prince Leopold, future King of the Belgians but then consort to Princess Charlotte of Wales, who was expected to inherit the crown of Great Britain, and also elder brother of the Duchess of Kent, mother of the future Queen Victoria. To make her a suitable bride for a prince, the emperor had raised her father (whose ancestors had been created counts in the Hungarian nobility in July 1685 and barons in February 1616) to Prince Koháry of Csábrág and Szitnya in Austria's nobility on 15 November 1815, two weeks before the wedding, thereby allowing her to come to her bridesgroom already a princess.

In 1826 at the death of her father Maria Antonia inherited over 150000 hectares of land in present-day Lower Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, including estates, forests, mines and factories. According to a list of assets appended to the marriage contract of her son, Prince August, at the time of his marriage to Princess Clémentine of Orléans in 1843, the Koháry properties included the enormous Palais Koháry in the center of Vienna and several Viennese manors, a summer home and lands at Ebenthal, Lower Austria, estates in Austria at Velm, Durnkrut, Walterskirchen, Bohmischdrut and Althoflein, as well as a dozen manors in Hungary, the domaine of Kiralytia, and a mansion at Pest. As late as 1868, when Antónia's grandson Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alencon, married, it was estimated that he and his three siblings stood to inherit a total of a million francs just from their share of their late grandmother's estate. Until the first world war, her descendants, the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, were among the three largest landowners in Hungary.

Maria Antonia died in Vienna in 1862, and was buried in the ducal mausoleum on the Friedhof am Glockenberg, (Glockenberg cemetery) in Coburg.

Marriage and issue

She and her husband became the parents of four children:

The couple were also ancestors of Pedro V of Portugal, Luis I of Portugal, Charles I of Austria, Otto von Habsburg, Michael I of Romania, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Boris III of Bulgaria, Simeon II of Bulgaria, Henri, Count of Paris, Prince Boris of Leiningen and Prince Hermann Friedrich of LeiningenPedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, and members of the Imperial House of Brazil alive today.

Honours

Ancestors

Ancestors of Princess Maria Antonia Koháry of Csábrág and Szitnya
8. András József, Count Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
4. Ignác József, Count Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
9. Baroness Margarethe Thavonat von Thavon
2. Ferenc József, Prince Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
10. Count Maximilian Guidobaldo Cavriani
5. Countess Maria Gabriella Cavriani
11. Countess Maria Franziska von Thürheim
1. Princess Mária Antónia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
12. Count Joseph von Waldstein-Wartenberg
6. Count Georg Christian von Waldstein-Wartenberg
13. Countess Maria Josepha von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg
3. Countess Maria Antonia von Waldstein-Wartenberg
14. Count Corfitz Anton Ulfeldt
7. Countess Elisabeth Ulfeldt
15. Princess Marie Elisabeth of Lobkowicz

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Kohary". Almanach de Gotha. Gotha, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Justus Perthes. 1825. pp. 3, 106–107.
  2. ^ Paoli, Dominique (2006). Fortunes & Infortunes des Princes d'Orléans. France: Editions Artena. pp. 107, 113, 372. ISBN 2-35154-004-2.
  3. Harald Sandner: Das Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha 1826 bis 2001; Eine Dokumentation zum 175-jährigen Jubiläum des Stammhauses in Wort und Bild, Neue Presse, Coburg, 2001, ISBN 3-00-008525-4, p. 321
  4. Bragança, Jose Vicente de (2014). "Agraciamentos Portugueses Aos Príncipes da Casa Saxe-Coburgo-Gota" [Portuguese Honours awarded to Princes of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]. Pro Phalaris (in Portuguese). 9–10: 6. Retrieved 28 November 2019.

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