Marriage and Issue
Prince Friedrich married Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Princess of Lippe), daughter of Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, in Neudorf on 24 April 1889. The dynastic status of the marriage of Friedrich and Adelaide was questioned during the Lippe succession dispute when it was argued that if Adelaide's brother, Leopold, was excluded from the Lippe succession on the grounds that their great-grandmother, Modeste von Unruh, was not of equal birth, then the children of Friedrich and Adelaide should be excluded from the Saxe-Meiningen succession on the same grounds.
Prince Friedrich and Princess Adelaide had six children who were full members of the Ducal House of Saxe-Meiningen:
- Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1890–1972).
- Princess Adelheid of Saxe-Meiningen (1891–1971).
- Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892–1946).
- Prince Ernst of Saxe-Meiningen (1895–1914) killed in action, near Maubeuge, France.
- Princess Luise of Saxe-Meiningen (1899–1985) married Baron Götz von Wangenheim.
- Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984).
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