Genealogy of the Royal Family of Belgium1, 2Genealogy of the Royal Family of Belgium1, 2
HM King Leopold
I Georg Christian Friedrich of the Belgians, Prince of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
(Born as: HSH Prince Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony)
(Since March 29th, 1816:) HRH Prince Leopold Georg
Christian Friedrich of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony
(Since December 16th, 1826:) HRH Prince Leopold Georg
Christian Friedrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
* Buchnerhaus near Schloß Ehrenburg, Coburg, December 16th, 1790
† Kasteel Laeken, December 10th, 1865
Granted the style Royal Highness by HRH Prince George The
Prince-Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
March 29th, 1816
King of the Belgians (elected: June 4th, 1831; provisionally
accepted the throne: June 26th, 1831; formally accepted the
throne: July 12th, 1831; inaugurated: Royal Square, Brussels,
July 21st, 1831)
Major-General of the Cavalry of Russia, 1807; Fieldmarshal of the
British Army, 1816
Married:
(civil) Cabinet of the King and (religious)
Palace Chapel, Royal Palace, Compiègne, August 8th,
1832: Children from the first marriage:
Children from the second marriage:
HRH Princess Marie
Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine
Léopoldine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony
Married:
(civil) Blue Drawing-Room and
(religious) Chapel, Royal Palace, Brussels, July 27th,
1857:
HI & RH Prince Imperial and Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian Joseph Maria of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and
Bohemia
(Since April 10th, 1864:) HIM Emperor Maximiliano
I of Mexico
* Schloß Schönbrunn, Vienna, July 6th, 1832
† (shot) Cerro de las Campanas, Queretaro, June
19th, 1867
Heir Pressumptive to the Throne of Austria-Hungary,
December 2nd, 1848 - August 21st, 1858; Governor of Lombardia-Venice, February 28th, 1857 - April
21st, 1859
Emperor of Mexico (accepted the throne and took the oath:
Neogothic Hall, Miramare Castle near Trieste, April 10th,
1864; abdicated: Cerro de las Campanas, Queretaro, May
15th, 1867)
HM King Leopold
II Louis-Philippe Marie Victor of the Belgians, Prince of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
(Since March 14th, 1891:) HM King Leopold II
Louis-Philippe Marie Victor of the Belgians, Prince of Belgium,
Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
(Born as: HRH Prince Leopold Louis-Philippe Marie Victor
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony)
(Since December 16th, 1840:) HRH Prince Leopold
Louis-Philippe Marie Victor Duke of Brabant, Prince of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
* Royal Palace, Brussels, April 9th, 1835
† Pavillion of Palms, Kasteel Laeken, December 17th, 1909
Heir to the Throne of Belgium, April 9th, 1835; created Duke of
Brabant by Royal Decree of December 16th, 1840
King of the Belgians, December 17th, 1865; Sovereign of the
Independant State of Congo, August 1st, 1885 (ceded the
sovereignty of Congo to Belgium: October 8th, 1908)
Married:
Children from the first marriage:
HRH Princess Louise-Marie
Amélie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony Married:
Royal Palace, Brussels, February
4th, 1875:
HSH Prince Ferdinand Philipp Maria August Raphael
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
(Since May 2nd, 1881:) HH Prince Ferdinand Philipp
Maria August Raphael of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of
Saxony
* Palais des Tuileries, Paris, March 28th, 1844
† Schloß Ehrenburg, Coburg, July 3rd, 1921
(Divorced: Gotha, January 15th, 1906)
Children from this marriage:
Married:
Coburg, August 2nd, 1898:
HSH Duke Ernst Günther of
Schleswig-Holstein, Heir to Norway
(Born as: HSH Prince Ernst Günther of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg)
(Since November 16th, 1863:) HSH Hereditary
Prince Ernst Günther of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
* Dolzig (today: Dluzek), Kreis Sorau, August
11th, 1863
† Primkenau (today: Prémkow), Kreis
Sprottau, February 22nd, 1921
Hereditary Prince of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg,
November 16th, 1863
Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg,
January 14th, 1880
HRH Princess Stéphanie Clotilde
Louise Hermine Marie Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
Duchess of Saxony 
Married:
HRH Princess Clémentine Albertine
Marie Léopoldine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of
Saxony Married:
(civil) Yellow Drawing-Room and
(religious) Chapel, Moncalieri Castle near Turin,
November 14th, 1910:
HIH Prince Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Napoléon
* Royal Palace, Paris, July 18th, 1862
† 241 Louizalaan, Brussels, May 3rd, 1926
Heir Apparent, June 1st, 1879
Head of the Imperial Family of France, March 17th, 1891
Children from the second marriage:3
Married:
(civil) Townhall, Poissy, February
26th and (religious) Église de Saint-Ferdinand des
Ternes, Paris (XVIIth Arrondissement), March 1st, 1927:
Lucie Gracieuse Mundutey
* Cambo-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, October 30th,
1900
† Maison de retraite 'Sainte Elisabeth', Cambo-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, February 8th, 2005
HRH Prince Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie
Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke
of Saxony
(Since December 16th, 1840:) HRH Prince Philippe Eugène
Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges Count of
Flanders, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
(Since March 14th, 1891:) HRH Prince Philippe Eugène
Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges Count of
Flanders, Prince of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
Duke of Saxony
* Kasteel Laeken, March 24th, 1837
† Regentschapshuis, 2 Regentschapstraat, Brussels, November
17th, 1905
Created Count of Flanders by Royal Decree of December 16th, 1840;
Heir Pressumptive to the Throne of Belgium, January 22nd, 1869
Married:
Sankt Hedwig Kathedrale, Berlin, April
25th, 1867:
HSH Princess Marie-Louise Alexandrine Caroline of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
(Since September 3rd, 1869:) HSH Princess Marie-Louise
Alexandrine Caroline of Hohenzollern
* Neuen Prinzenbau, Parc of Schloß Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen,
November 17th, 1845
† Regentschapshuis, 2 Regentschapstraat, Brussels, November
26th, 1912
Children
from this marriage:
HM King Albert
I Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad of the Belgians, Prince of
Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
(Since the end of World War I:) HM King Albert I Léopold
Clément Marie Meinrad of the Belgians, Prince of Belgium
(Born as: HRH Prince Albert Léopold Clément Marie
Meinrad of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony)
(Since March 14th, 1891:) HRH Prince Albert Léopold
Clément Marie Meinrad of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, Duke of Saxony
* Regentschapshuis, 2 Regentschapstraat, Brussels, April 8th, 1875
† (climbing accident) "Corbeille",
Marche-les-Dames, February 17th, 1934
Heir Pressumptive to the Throne of Belgium, November 17th, 1905
King of the Belgians, December 23rd, 1909
Married:
(civil) Throne-room, Royal Palace and
(religious) Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Munich, October 2nd, 1900:
HRH Duchess Elisabeth Valerie Gabrielle Maria in Bavaria
* Schloß Possenhofen near Starnberg, July 25th, 1876
† Kasteel Stuyvenberg, Laeken, November 23rd, 1965
Children from this marriage:
HRH Prince Charles Théodore
Henri Antoine Meinrad of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg
and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
HRH Princess Marie-José Charlotte
Sophie Amélie Henriette Gabrielle of Belgium, Princess
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony
Married:
Paolina Chapel, Royal Palace of the
Quirinale, Rome, January 8th, 1930:
HM King Umberto II Nicola Tommaso Giovanni
Maria of Italy, Prince of
Savoy ("Beppo")
(Born as: HRH Prince Royal Umberto Nicola Tommaso
Giovanni Maria of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont)
* Piedmont Castle, Racconigi, September 15th, 1904
† Room 609, Cantonal Hospital, Geneva, March 18th,
1983
Prince of Piedmont (= Crown Prince of Italy), September
15th, 1904; Prince-Regent of Italy with the rank of
Lieutenant-General, June 5th, 1944
King of Italy, May 9th, 1946 (the monarchy was abolished
by plebiscite: June 2nd, 1946; the King left Italy to go
into exile: June 13th, 1946)
HM
King Leopold III Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus
Marie Miguel of the Belgians, Prince of Belgium
(Born as: HRH Prince Leopold Philippe Charles Albert
Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg
and Gotha, Duke of Saxony)
(Since December 23rd, 1909:) HRH Prince Leopold Philippe
Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel Duke of Brabant,
Prince of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of
Saxony
(Since the end of World War I:) HRH Prince Leopold
Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel Duke of
Brabant, Prince of Belgium
* Hôtel d'Assche, 33 Wetenschapsstraat, Brussels, November 3rd,
1901
† Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, 10 Avenue Hippocrate, Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, September 25th, 1983
Duke of Brabant (= Crown Prince of Belgium), December 23rd, 1909
King of the Belgians, February 23rd, 1934 (abdicated: Throne
Room, Royal Palace, Brussels, July 16th, 1951)
Married:
(morganatic) (religious) Private Chapel,
Kasteel Laeken, September 11th and (civil) Kasteel
Laeken, December 6th, 1941: 
Children from the first marriage:
Married:
(civil) Festive Hall, Grand-Ducal
Palace and (religious) Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg,
April 9th, 1953:
HRH Grand Duke Jean I Benoît Guillaume Robert
Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau, Prince of
Bourbon-Parma
(Since July 28th, 1986:) HRH Grand Duke Jean I
Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc
d'Aviano of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau
(Born as: HRH Hereditary Prince Jean Benoît
Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc
d'Aviano of Luxembourg, Hereditary Prince of Nassau,
Prince of Bourbon-Parma)
(Since January 5th, 1939:) HRH Hereditary Grand Duke Jean
Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc
d'Aviano of Luxembourg, Hereditary Prince of Nassau,
Prince of Bourbon-Parma
* Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, January 5th, 1921
Hereditary Prince of Luxembourg, January 5th, 1921;
created Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Hereditary
Prince of Nassau, January 5th, 1939; Member of the
Council of State, 1951-1961; Lieutenant-Représentant of
the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (= his mother), April
28th, 1961 (sworn-in: Grand-Ducal Palace, Luxembourg, May
4th, 1961)
Grand Duke of Luxembourg, November 12th, 1964 (sworn-in:
Parliament, Luxembourg, November 12th, 1964; abdicated:
Grand-Ducal Palace, Luxembourg, October 7th, 2000)
Lieutenant of the Luxembourg Army, January 5th, 1939;
Second Lieutenant of the Irish Guards, July 28th, 1943;
Lieutenant of the Irish Guards, March 30th, 1944; Captain
of the Irish Guards, May 14th, 1945 (resigned his British
commission: June 26th, 1946); Colonel of the Luxembourg
Army, July 17th, 1945; General of the Luxembourg Army,
November 12th, 1964; Colonel of the Irish Guards, August
21st, 1984; Honorary General of the British Army, March
17th, 1995
HM King Baudouin I Albert Charles
Léopold Axel Marie Gustave of the Belgians, Prince of
Belgium
Married:
(civil) Throne-room, Royal Palace
and (religious) Sint Michiel en Sint Goedele Kerk
(today: Sint Michiel Kathedraal), Brussels, December 15th,
1960:
Doña Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias
Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón
* Mora Palace, Calle Zurbano, Madrid, June 11th, 1928
Child from this marriage:
Children from the second marriage:4
Married:
Deben, Suffolk, March 14th, 1991:
Léa Inge Dora Wolman
* Etterbeek, December 2nd, 1951
HRH Princess Marie-Christine Daphné
Astrid Elisabeth Léopoldine of Belgium
("Daphné")
Married:
HRH Princess Marie-Esmeralda
Adelaïde Lilian Anne Léopoldine of Belgium 
Married:
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, April 5th,
1998:
Prof. Salvador Enrique Moncada
* Tegucigalpa, December 3rd, 1944
Children from this marriage:
HM
King Albert II Félix Humbert Théodore Christian Eugène
Marie of the Belgians, Prince of Belgium
(Born as: HRH Prince Albert Félix Humbert Théodore
Christian Eugène Marie of Belgium)
(Since June 7th, 1934:) HRH Prince Albert Félix Humbert
Théodore Christian Eugène Marie Prince of Liége, Prince of
Belgium
* Kasteel Stuyvenberg, Laeken, June 6th, 1934
Created Prince of Liége by Royal Decree of June 7th, 1934; Heir
Pressumptive to the Throne of Belgium, July 17th, 1951
King of the Belgians, August 9th, 1993
Married:
(civil) Empire Hall, Royal Palace and
(religious) Sint Michiel en Sint Goedele Kerk (today: Sint
Michiel Kathedraal), Brussels, July 2nd, 1959:
Donna Paola Margherita Maria-Antonia Consiglia dei
Principi Ruffo di Calabria
* Villa Claudia, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Tuscany, September 11th,
1937
Children
from this marriage:
Married:
(civil) Gothic Hall, Townhall and
(religious) Sint Michiel Kathedraal, Brussels, December
4th, 1999:
Jonkvrouwe Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine
d'Udekem d'Acoz
* Uccle, January 20th, 1973
Created HRH Princess of Belgium by Royal Decree of
November 8th, 1999 which entered into force upon the
solemnization of marriage
Children from this marriage:
HRH
Prince Gabriel Baudouin Charles Marie of Belgium
HRH Princess Astrid
Joséphine-Charlotte Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola Marie of
Belgium 
Married:
(civil) Gothic Hall, Townhall and
(religious) Onze Vrouwe van de Zavel Kerk, Brussels,
September 22nd, 1984:
HI & RH Prince Imperial and Archduke Lorenz
Otto Carl Amadeus Thadeus Maria Pius Andreas Marcus
d'Aviano of Austria-Este,
Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
(Since November 10th, 1995:) HI & RH Prince Imperial
and Archduke Lorenz Otto Carl Amadeus Thadeus
Maria Pius Andreas Marcus d'Aviano of Austria-Este,
Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Belgium
* Clinique du Belvédère, 18 Rue du Belvédère,
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, December 16th, 1955
Created Prince of Belgium by Royal Decree of November
10th, 1995
HRH Prince Laurent Benoît Baudouin
Marie of Belgium 
Married:
(civil) Townhall and (religious)
Sint Michiel Kathedraal, Brussels, April 12th, 2003:
Claire Louise Coombs
* Bath, January 18th, 1974
Created HRH Princess of Belgium by Royal Decree of April
1st, 2003 which entered into force upon the solemnization
of marriage
Child from this marriage:
Illegitimate
child:5
Child:
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