Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel


Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the tenth of 17 children of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Marriage

She married Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld on 23 April 1749 at Wolfenbüttel. Among her notable great-grandchildren were Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Empress Carlota of Mexico and Leopold II of Belgium.
  1. Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, father of Leopold I of Belgium and grandfather of Leopold II, Empress Carlota of Mexico, Queen Victoria of Great Britain, and her husband Prince Albert.
  2. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand.
  3. Fredericka Juliane.
  4. Caroline Ulrike Amalie, a nun at Gandersheim.
  5. Ludwig Karl Frederick ; he had an illegitimate son by some Mademoiselle Brutel de la Riviére: Ludwig Frederick Emil of Coburg . In turn, the five children of Ludwig Frederick were created Freiherren von Coburg. His descendants still alive.
  6. Ferdinand August Heinrich.
  7. Frederick.

    Ancestry