Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg
Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, was a member of the ducal house of Saxe-Altenburg. He was the father of Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg.
Biography
Moritz was born on 24 October 1829 in Eisenberg, as a member of the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin, whose other, Albertine branch, was the ruling family of the Kingdom of Saxony.He was the third, but second surviving son of Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Moritzstraße in Altenburg, capital of the Duchy is named after the Prince.
Marriage and issue
In Meiningen on 15 October 1862 Moritz married Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, second child and only daughter of Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen by his wife, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel.They had five children, one son and four daughters:
- Princess Marie Anne, married on 16 April 1882 to Prince Georg of Schaumburg-Lippe.
- Princess Elisabeth Augusta Marie Agnes married on 27 April 1884 to Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia. Upon her marriage, she took the name Elizaveta Mavrikievna in a Russian Orthodox baptism
- Princess Margarethe Marie Agnes Adelaide Karoline Fredericka, died young
- Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, married Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe and had issue; they divorced on 17 January 1920, shortly after the collapse of the German Empire
- Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg married on 6 February 1895 to Eduard, Duke of Anhalt; they divorced on 26 January 1918, shortly before he died
Death
Prince Moritz died on 13 May 1907, in Arco, Tirol, Austro-Hungarian Empire, aged 77.He was buried, alongside his wife, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, in the Fürstengruft in the Friedhof, Altenburg, until 1974, when their bodies were reburied in a grave in the Friedhof, Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany.