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August 9, 1669 – Birth of Eudoxia Feodorovna Lopukhina, Tsaritsa of All Russia, first wife of Peter I (the Great), Emperor of All Russia, in Moscow, Russia
Eudoxia was the last ethnic Russian and non-foreign wife of a Russian tsar or emperor. She was the mother of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich and the paternal grandmother of Peter II, Emperor of All Russia. She was chosen as a bride for Peter I by his mother Natalia Naryshkina who hoped 17-year-old Peter would settle down and turn from an adolescent into a man. Peter could not stand Eusoxia’s conservative relatives and soon abandoned her for a Dutch beauty Anna Mons. Their relationship lasted twelve years until Peter met Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya, first his mistress, then his second wife, and finally his successor on the Russian throne as Catherine I, Empress of All Russia. In September 1698, Eudoxia was finally banished to a convent and their marriage was over.
Unofficial Royalty: Eudoxia Feodorovna Lopukhina
August 9, 1693 – Birth of Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the first wife of Friedrich Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, in Saalfeld, then in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, now in the German state of Thuringia
On February 8, 1720, in Saalfeld, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, now in the German state of Thuringia, 26-year-old Sophia Wilhelmina married 28-year-old Friedrich Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Sophia Wilhelmina and Friedrich Anton had three children but only two survived childhood. The marriage of Friedrich Anton and Sophia Wilhelmina lasted only seven years as Sophia Wilhelmina died on December 4, 1727, aged 34, in Rudolstadt, Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, now in the German state of Thuringia.
Unofficial Royalty: Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
August 9, 1696 – Birth of Josef Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein in Prague, Bohemia, now in the Czech Republic
Full name: Josef Wenzel Lorenz
The great-grandnephew of Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Josef Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein reigned from 1712 – 1718, was the Regent of Liechtenstein from 1732 – 1745 and reigned again from 1748 – 1772. In 1718, Josef Wenzel married his first cousin Princess Anna Maria Antonie of Liechtenstein. They had five children who all died in childhood. Josef Wenzel had a successful military career in the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire. He also served as a diplomat for Holy Roman Emperor Karl VI. Josef Wenzel, Prince of Liechtenstein died on February 10, 1772, aged 75, in Vienna Austria. With no surviving sons, Josef Wenzel was succeeded by his nephew, the son of his brother Prince Emmanuel, as Franz Josef I, Prince of Liechtenstein.
Unofficial Royalty: Josef Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein
August 9, 1847 – Birth of Queen Maria Vittoria of Spain, wife of King Amadeo I of Spain, born Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo in Paris, France
Full name: Maria Vittoria Carlotta Enrichetta
Maria Vittoria was from an Italian noble family and inherited her father’s noble titles becoming Princess della Cisterna, Princess di Belriguardo, Marchioness di Voghera, and Countess di Ponderano in her own right. She married Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, the second son of King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy. Amedeo and Maria Vittoria had three sons. Their descendants through their eldest son have been the disputed claimants to the headship of the House of Savoy along with descendants of Amedeo’s brother King Umberto I of Italy. After Queen Isabella II of Spain was deposed in 1870, Amedeo was elected King of Spain and Maria Vittoria was Queen Consort. Without popular support, Amedeo abdicated the Spanish throne on February 11, 1873, and left Spain.
Unofficial Royalty: Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen of Spain
August 9, 1854 – Death of King Friedrich August II of Saxony from injuries sustained in a carriage accident in Karrösten, Austria; buried in the Wettin Crypt at the Dresden Cathedral in the Kingdom of Saxony, now in Saxony, Germany
On August 9, 1854, King Friedrich August II died in Karrösten, Austria, from injuries sustained in a carriage accident. The previous day while traveling in the Tyrol, the King had fallen from the carriage into the path of one of the horses which stepped on his head. His widow Queen Maria Anna, had a chapel built on the site of the King’s accident. The Königskapelle (King’s Chapel) was consecrated the following year.
Unofficial Royalty: King Friedrich August II of Saxony
August 9, 1902 – Coronation of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London, England, after a six-week delay due to his emergency appendectomy
Edward’s wife Alexandra of Denmark was crowned with him.
Unofficial Royalty: King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Unofficial Royalty: Guts and Glory: Edward VII’s Appendix and the Coronation that Never Was
August 9, 1928 – Death of Friedrich II, Grand Duke of Baden in Badenweiler, Germany; buried in the Grand Ducal Chapel in the Pheasant Garden in Karlsruhe, Germany
Friedrich II was the last Grand Duke of Baden, reigning from 1907 until the end of the German Empire in 1918. When Wilhelm II, German Emperor abdicated in 1918, riots broke out throughout the German Empire. Friedrich and his family were forced to flee Karlsruhe Palace, for Zwingenberg Castle in the Neckar Valley. They then arranged to stay at Langenstein Castle, where Friedrich formally abdicated the throne of Baden on November 22, 1918. Soon the family was permitted to return to their home on the island of Mainau in Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Nearly blind and in poor health, Grand Duke Friedrich II died in the spa town of Badenweiler, Germany while taking a cure
Unofficial Royalty: Friedrich II, Grand Duke of Baden
August 9, 1968 – Death of Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen, pretender to the former throne of Saxony, and head of the House of Saxony, from 1932 until his death, in Samedan, Switzerland; buried at the Royal Chapel in Königskapelle in Karrösten, Austria
Unofficial Royalty: Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen
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