Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf

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Auguste Reuss of Ebersdorf as Artemisia, 1775, painted by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, sen., called: the Kasseler.

Countess Augusta Caroline Reuss of Ebersdorf and Lobenstein (German: Gräfin Reuß zu Ebersdorf und Lobenstein) (19 January 1757 – 6 November 1831), was the daughter of Count Heinrich XXIV Reuss (1724-1779) and his wife Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg (1727-1796).

She was born in Ebersdorf. She married, on 13 June 1777, at Ebersdorf, Franz Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Their children were:

Sophie (1778-1835)
Antoinette (1779-1824)
Juliane (1781-1860)
Ernst I (1784-1844)
Ferdinand (1785-1851)
Viktoria (1786-1861)
Marianne Charlotte (1788-1794)
Léopold I (1790-1865), King of the Belgians from 1831
Maximilian (1792-1793)

Countess Augusta is the grandmother of both Queen Victoria (through her mother Viktoria) and her husband, Prince Albert (through his father Ernst). She died in Coburg.

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