Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 15 July 1750, in Coburg – 9 December 1806, in Coburg, was one of the ruling Thuringian dukes of a House of Wettin. As progenitor of a nature of Coburg princes who, in the 19th in addition to 20th centuries, ascended the thrones of several European realms, he is a patrilineal ancestor of royal houses of the Belgium, Bulgaria, Portugal and the United Kingdom, as well as of several queens consort.

First marriage

In Hildburghausen on 6 March 1776, Francis married Princess Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen, a daughter of his Ernestine kinsman, Duke Ernst Friedrich II and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar. She died on 28 October 1776, only seven months after her wedding. There were no children born from this marriage.