Genealogy of The British Royal Family - Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Ancestors of Edward VIII.

• King Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
• Prince Albert, son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
• Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Duke Francis Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield and Countess Auguste Reuss zu Ebersdorf und Lobenstein.
• Duke Francis Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, son of Ernst Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Sophia Antonia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
• Ernst Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, son of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Anna Sophie, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, son of Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Saalfeld and Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
• Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Saalfeld, son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg.
• Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt.
• Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, son of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Dorothea Susanne of Simmern.
• Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, son of John Frederick, Elector of Saxony and Sybille of Cleves.
• John Frederick, Elector of Saxony, son of John, Elector of Saxony and Sofie von Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
• John, Elector of Saxony, son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and Elisabeth of Bavaria, daughter of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria.
• Ernest, Elector of Saxony, son of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and Margarete of Austria, daughter of Ernest of Austria.
• Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, son of Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and Katharina Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
• Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, son of Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia and Katharina von Henneberg.
• Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia, son of Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen and Matilde of Bavaria, daughter of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, son of Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen and Elisabeth von Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk.
• Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen, son of Albert II, Margrave of Meissen and Margaret of Sicily, daughter of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, son of Henry III, Margrave of Meissen and Constantia of Austria, daughter of Leopold VI of Austria.
• Henry III, Margrave of Meissen, son of Dietrich, Margrave of Meissen and Jutta of Thuringia, daughter of Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia.
• Dietrich, Margrave of Meissen, son of Otto II, Margrave of Meissen and Hedwig of Brandenburg.
• Otto II, Margrave of Meissen, son of Conrad the Great and Liutgard of Elchingen.
• Conrad I the Great of Meissen, son of Thimo II the Brave, Count of Wettin and Ida of Nordheim, daughter of Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria.
• Thimo II the Brave, Count of Wettin, son of Dietrich II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia, and Mathilde, daughter of Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen.
• Dietrich II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia, son of Dedo I of Wettin and Thietberga of Nordmark.
• Dedo I Merseburg, son of Dietrich I of Wettin and Jutta of Merseburg.
• Dietrich I of Wettin (d. ca. 976), the oldest traceable member of the House of Wettin. His paternity cannot be established with certainty.