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Ernst I Anton Karl Ludwig Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha was the son of Franz I Friedrich Anton Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld and Auguste Karoline Sophie Gräfin Reuss zu Lobenstein und Ebersdorf. He was born on 2 January 1784 at Coburg, Bayern, Germany.2 He married, firstly, Luise Pauline Charlotte Friedrike Auguste Prinzessin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, daughter of Emil Leopold August Herzog von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg and Luise Charlotte Prinzessin von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, on 31 July 1817 at Gotha, Thüringen, Germany.2 He and Luise Pauline Charlotte Friedrike Auguste Prinzessin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg were divorced on 31 March 1826.3 He married, secondly, Antoinette Friederike Auguste Marie Anna Herzogin von Württemberg, daughter of Alexander Friedrich Carl Herzog von Württemberg and Antoinette Ernestine Amalie Prinzessin von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld, on 23 December 1832 at Coburg, Bayern.2 He died on 29 January 1844 at age 60 at Gotha, Thüringen.2
He gained the title of Herzog Ernst I von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (styled as HSH Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) on 10 December 1806.4,1 He gained the title of Herzog Ernst I von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha on 16 November 1826.3
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b. Jan. 2, 1784, Coburg, Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld [Germany]--d. Jan. 29, 1844, Gotha, saksen-Coburg-Gotha), duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) from 1806 and then, from 1826, duke of saksen-Coburg-Gotha. He was the uncle of Queen Victoria and the father of her husband, Prince Albert.
When Ernest succeeded to the Duchy of saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld on the death of his father (Francis) in 1806, the duchy was occupied by Napoleon, and Ernest did not recover it until the peace of Tilsit (July 1807). He commanded the Saxon V army
corps in 1813-14 and reduced Mainz by blockade; he also took part in the campaign of 1815. At the Congress of Vienna he
received the principality of Lichtenberg, which he sold to Prussia in 1834.
In 1826, after the death of his brother-in-law Frederick, the last duke of saksen-Gotha (1825), Ernest gave up Saalfeld and
received Gotha, becoming Ernest I of saksen-Coburg-Gotha. In 1821 he had given a constitution to Coburg, but he did not
change the traditional system of estates in Gotha. He married twice: (1) in 1817, Louise of saksen-Gotha, whom he divorced in
1826; (2) in 1832, Mary of Württemberg. Of his sons, Ernest (b. 1818) succeeded him, and Albert (b. 1819) married Queen
Victoria of Great Britain. His brother Leopold (1790-1865) became king of the Belgians and his sister Victoria (1786-1861)
was Queen Victoria's mother.
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