Background
Born in Coburg, she was the second daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf.
Duchess of Württemberg Duke of Saxe
Born in Coburg, she was the second daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf.
By marriage, she was a Duchess of Württemberg. Through her eldest surviving son, she is the ancestress of today"s (Catholic) House of Württemberg. The couple settled in Russia, where Alexander, as a maternal uncle of both Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I made a military and diplomatic career.
Antoinette died in Saint St. Petersburg.
According to Queen Louise of Prussia, Antoinette could have had an illegitimate child. Her brother George wrote on 18 May 1802: " The Württemberg couple didn"t speak to each other in 2 years, but she was with child and certainly the father was some Herr von Höbel, a Canon.
I know all this from the Duke of Weimar, and is holy true."
Marie of Württemberg (1799–1860), who in 1832 married Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Paul of Württemberg (1800–1801).
Alexander of Württemberg (1804–1881), Duke of Württemberg.
Ernest of Württemberg (1807–1868), Duke of Württemberg, who in 1860 married Nathalie Eschhorn von Grünhof (1829–1905). Their only daughter, Alexandra Nathalie Ernestine von Grünhof, married Robert von Keudell and had issue. Frederick Wilhelm Ferdinand of Württemberg (29 April 1810 – 25 April 1815).