Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf

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Image:Artemisia.jpg Countess Augusta Caroline Reuss zu Ebersdorf und Lobenstein (19 January 1757 – 6 November 1831), was the daughter of Count Heinrich XXIV Reuss zu Ebersdorf (1724-1779) and his wife Countess Karoline Ernestine zu Erbach-Schönberg (1727-1796).

She was born in Ebersdorf. She married, on 13 June 1777, at Ebersdorf, Franz Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Their children were:

• Sophie (1778-1835)
• Antoinette (1779-1824)
• Juliane (1781-1860)
• Ernst I (1784-1844)
• Ferdinand (1785-1851)
• Viktoria (1786-1861)
• Marianne Charlotte (1788-1794)
• Léopold I (1790-1865), King of the Belgians from 1831
• Maximilian (1792-1793)

Countess Augusta is the grandmother of both Queen Victoria (through her mother Viktoria) and her husband, Prince Albert (through his father Ernst). She died in Coburg.de:Auguste von Reuss-Ebersdorf nl:Augusta van Reuss-Ebersdorf en Lobenstein