Friday, 3 January 2014

HRH Princess Stephanie of Belgium

Second daughter of King Leopold II of the Belgians


Date & place of birth May 21, 1864 Castle Laeken, Laeken, Brussels
Born as HRH Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Names Stephanie Clotilde Louise Hermine Marie Charlotte

Father King Leopold II of the Belgians (then Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant)
Mother Archduchess Marie-Henriette of Austria (Queen Marie-Henriette of the Belgians)





Royal house Saxe-Coburg and Gotha





Siblings (3)
Second of four children (1 brother, 2 sisters)
Princess Louise of Belgium
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant
Princess Clementine of Belgium





Married May 10, 1881 Saint Augustine Church, Vienna
Spouse Archduke Rudolf of Austria*

*Committed suicide

Married March 22, 1990 Miramare Castle, Triestee
Spouse Count Elemer Lonyay de Nagy-Lonya et Vasaros-Nameny





Issue
(1 daughter)
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (Princess Otto of Windisch-Gratz)





Grandchildren (4)
(3 grandsons, 1 granddaughter)
Prince Franz Joseph of Windisch-Grätz
Prince Ernest of Windisch-Grätz
Prince Rudolph of Windisch-Grätz
Princess Stéphanie of Windisch-Grätz





Died August 22, 1945 Monastery of Pannonhalma, Hungary (age 81)
Place of burial Monastery of Pannonhalma, Hungary





Titles
HRH Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony
HRH Princess Imperial and Archduchess Rudolf of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony
HRH Countess de Nagy-Lonya et Vasaros-Nameny, Princess of Belgium, Princess of Saxe-Coburg an Gotha, Duchess of Saxony (from March 14, 1891)
HRH Countess de Nagy-Lonya et Vasaros-Nameny, Princess of Belgium (from 1918)





Paternal grandparents
King Leopold I of the Belgians
Princess Louise Marie of Orleans (Queen Louise Marie of the Belgians)

Paternal great-grandparents Duke Francis of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
King Louis-Philippe I of the French
Princess Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies





Maternal grandparents
Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary
Duchess Maria Dorothea of Wurttemberg

Maternal great-grandparents
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain
Duke Louis of Wurttemberg
Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg

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