Countess Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen


Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen was a daughter of Count Josias II of Waldeck-Wildungen and his wife, Wilhelmine Christine, a daughter William of Nassau-Hilchenbach.

Marriage and issue

She married on 2 December 1690 in Maastricht to John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg. She was his second wife. She had eight children:
  1. William Frederick
  2. Charles Ernest
  3. Sophia Wilhelmina, married on 8 February 1720 to Frederick Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  4. Henriette Albertine
  5. Louise Emilie
  6. Charlotte
  7. Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
  8. Henriette Albertine
Via Francis Josias, she was a great-great-grandmother of King Leopold I of Belgium and a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.