Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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Prince Josias
Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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Portrait of the Prince, wearing Austrian military uniform with the ribbon and star of the Order of Maria Theresa of Austria.
Spouse(s) Therese Stroffeck
Issue
Frederick, Freiherr von Rohmann
Noble family House of Wettin
Father Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Mother Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Born (1737-12-26)26 December 1737
Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg
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Coburg
Religion Lutheranism

Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (German Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld) (26 December 1737 – 26 February 1815) was a general in the Austrian service.

Biography

Born at Schloß Ehrenburg in Coburg, he was the youngest son of Duke Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Anna Sophie, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
He was the great-uncle of King Leopold I of Belgium (1790–1865); and the great-great-uncle of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819–1901).

Military career

Josias joined the Habsburg military as Colonel in 1759, participated in the Seven Years' War, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Field Marshal by 1773. In the Russo-Turkish-Austrian war of 1788, he commanded an army corps under Freiherr von Laudon, occupying Moldavia, capturing Khotyn in Bessarabia and sharing in Aleksandr Suvorov's victory in the Battle of Focșani (1 August 1789). Having completely beaten the main Ottoman army under Grand Vizier Koca Yusuf Pasha in the Battle of Rymnik, he captured the greater part of Wallachia, including Bucharest, being welcomed by the population after the flight of Prince Nicholas Mavrogenes (see History of Bucharest), and soon after becoming a field marshal.[citation needed]

During the occupation of Moldavia, Josias met Therese Stroffeck, a commoner. On 24 September 1789, in the town of Roman, she bore him a son, named Frederick. Josias married Therese after their return to Coburg, on 24 December and recognized his son. Frederick was ennobled by the Austrian Emperor on 25 August 1808 and on 17 February 1853 the Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha created him Freiherr von Rohmann, named after the place of his birth. Frederick however, as the child of a morganatic marriage, and his descendants were barred of the succession of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

In 1793 and 1794 he commanded the army in the Austrian Netherlands during the Flanders Campaign. Due to his victory in the French Revolutionary Wars at Neerwinden in March 1793, he returned the region to Austrian control. Entering France, he took Condé, Valenciennes, Quesnoy and Landrecies. However, due to unfortunate positioning, partly due to disunity amongst the Allied powers and their forces, he suffered a string of minor setbacks in front of the Revolutionary Army on the Sambre, followed by a decisive defeat at Fleurus (26 June 1794).

He thereupon abandoned the Netherlands, which Habsburg diplomats had already decided to give up. Angered by this, and openly criticizing the policies of the Baron Thugut, Josias resigned as Field Marshal (the Count of Clerfayt assumed command in his place) and retired to Coburg, where he later died.

Ancestry

Family of Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Dorothea Maria of Anhalt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Elisabeth of Brünswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Philip VII, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Josias II, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Anna Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. William of Nassau-Hilchenbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Wilhelmine Christine of Nassau-Siegen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Christina, Countess of Erbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Louis Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Albrecht Anton, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Albert Frederick of Barby-Mühlingen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Emilie Juliana von Barby-Mühlingen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Sophie Ursula of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (= 8)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg (= 9)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. August, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon of 1888–89. In turn, it cites:
    • A. von Witzleben, Prinz Friedrich J. von Koburg-Saalfeld, Herzog zu Sachsen, Berlin, 1859