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Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

1750 - 1806

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Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (in German and fully Franz Friedrich Anton, Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld, 15 July 1750 – 9 December 1806), was a reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, one of the ruling Thuringian dukes of the House of Wettin. As progenitor of a line of Coburg princes who, in the 19th and 20th centuries, ascended the thrones of several European realms, he is a patrilineal ancestor of the royal houses of Belgium and Bulgaria (and also of Portugal until the death of King Manuel II in 1932 and the United Kingdom until the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022), as well as of several queens consort and the empress consort of Mexico in the 1860s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld is the 208th most popular nobleman (down from 174th in 2019), the 828th most popular biography from Germany (down from 741st in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Nobleman.

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld is most famous for being a close friend and advisor to Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ranks 208 out of 1,415. Before him are Germaine of Foix, Ramesses X, Ramesses IX, Ramesses VIII, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg. After him are Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, Ismihan Sultan, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, and Maria Theresa of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ranks 8. Before him are Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Letizia Ramolino, Caroline Herschel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, and Tipu Sultan. After him are Heshen, Francisco de Miranda, Adam Afzelius, Murad Bey, Sheikh Mansur, and Karl August von Hardenberg. Among people deceased in 1806, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ranks 11. Before him are William Pitt the Younger, Charles-Henri Sanson, William V, Prince of Orange, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Carlo Gozzi, and Michael Haydn. After him are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Johann Christoph Adelung, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Utamaro, Nicolas Leblanc, and Mathurin Jacques Brisson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ranks 828 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (1414), Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Johann Tetzel (1460), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), and Carl Spitzweg (1808). After him are Wilhelm Hauff (1802), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Wolfgang Schäuble (1942), Hermann Cohen (1842), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), and Bernd Schuster (1959).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Germany

Among noblemen born in Germany, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ranks 26. Before him are Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570), Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707), Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869), and Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (1414). After him are Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (1799), Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497), Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1712), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625), and Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1641).

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