THE
KINGDOM OF BULGARIA
House of Battenberg & House of Wettin
The Kingdom
of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Царство България)
was established on
October 5, 1908 (September 22 O.S.) when the Principality of Bulgaria
officially proclaimed
itself independent from the Ottoman Empire and was
elevated to the style of kingdom. This move also formalised the annexation
of the Ottoman province of Eastern Rumelia, which had been under Bulgarian
control since 1885. In 1946 the monarchy
was abolished, its final Tsar was
sent into exile and the kingdom was replaced by a People's Republic.
Although
rarely, it is sometimes referred to as the Third Bulgarian Empire,
as in the Middle Ages the term Tsardom meant an Empire.
However, the Third
Bulgarian state was internationally recognized as a Kingdom.
House
of Battenberg
Alexander
Joseph of Battenberg (5 April 1857 - 23 October 1893)
was the first prince (knyaz) of modern Bulgaria, reigning from
29 April 1879 to 7 September 1886.
ALEXANDER Joseph Pr von Battenberg (see HESSE)
was b.Verona 5 Apr
1857 and d.Graz 17 Nov 1893; he was elected Prince of Bulgaria 29
Apr 1879 and abdicated 3
Sep 1886; he m.at Mentone 6 Feb 1889 Johanna
Marie Luise Loisinger (Preßburg 18 Apr 1865-Vienna 20 Jul 1951)
1a) Assène Ludwig Alexander Gf von Hartenau
(Graz 16 Jan
1890-Vienna 15 Mar 1965); m.Vienna 7 May 1934 Bertha
Hussa(Hermagor, Kärnten 1 Dec 1890-Vienna
4 Nov 1971)
2a)
Marie Therese Vera Zwetana Gfn von
Hartenau (Graz 24 Oct 1893-Oberstdorf,
Bavaria 24 Nov 1935);
m.New York 29 Dec 1924 Charles Hercule Boissevain
(Amsterdam 18 Oct 1893-Colorado Springs 19 Oct 1946)
House of Wettin (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha)
The Bulgarian Royal Family is a line of the Kohary
branch of the
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha which ruled Bulgaria from 1887 to
1946. The last tsar, Simeon II,
became Prime Minister of Bulgaria
in 2001 and remained in office until 2005.
The members of this family bear the titles Prince or Princess of
Bulgaria,
Duke or Duchess of Saxony, with the foraml Style of Royal Highness.
The Genealogy of The Royal House
FERDINAND Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria Pr of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
(see SAXONY), b.Vienna 26 Feb 1861, d.Coburg 10 Sep 1948, was elected
Prince of Bulgaria 7 Jul 1887 and proclaimed
himself King (Tsar) of
the Bulgarians 5 Oct 1908; he m.1st Villa Pianore 20 Apr 1893 Marie
Louise Pss of Bourbon-Parma
(Rome 17 Jan 1870-Sofia 31 Jan 1899); m.2d
(Catholic) Coburg 28 Feb 1908 (Prot.) Schloß Osterstein 1 Mar 1908
Eleonore Pss Reuss (Trebschen 22 Aug 1860-Euxinograd 12 Sep 1917)
1a) BORIS III Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig
Stanislaus Xaver,
King of the Bulgarians (Sofia 30 Jan 1894- Sofia 28 Aug 1943);
m.Assisi 25 Oct 1930 Giovanna
Pss of Savoy
(Rome 13 Nov 1907-Estoril 26 Feb 2000)
1b) Maria Luisa, b.Sofia 13 Jan 1933; m.1st (civ) Amorbach 14 Feb 1957
(rel) Cannes 20 Feb 1957
(div 1968) Karl Pr zu Leiningen (Coburg 2 Jan
1928-Vered Hagalil, Israel 28 Sep 1990); m.2d Toronto, Ontario 16 Nov
1969 Bronislaw Chrobok (b.Kattowitz 27 Aug 1933)
1c) Paul Alastair Antoni Chrobok,
b.Toronto 3 May 1972
2c) Alexandra-Nadejda Chrobok, b.Toronto 14 Sep 1970; m.Estoril 7 Sep
2001
Jorge Champalimaud Raposo de Magalhães (b.Lisbon 16 Sep 1970)
1d) Luis Wincenty António Amedeo Chrobok
Raposo de Magalhães, b.Lisbon 15 Dec 2003
2d) Giovanna Chrobok Raposo de
Magalhães, b.Lisbon
27 Nov 2006
2b) SIMEON
II, King of the Bulgarians from the death of his father
until he was forced into exile in 1946; b.Sofia 16 Jun 1937;
m.
(civ) Lausanne 20 Jan 1962 (rel) Vevey 21 Jan 1962 Margarita
Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela (b.Madrid 6 Jan 1935)
1c) Kardam, Pr of Tirnovo,
b.Madrid 2 Dec 1962;
m.Madrid11 Jul 1996 Miriam Ungria y López
(b.Madrid 2 Sep 1963)
1d) Boris,
b.Madrid 10 Oct 1997
2d) Beltran,
b.Madrid 23 Mar 1999
2c) Kyrill, Pr of Preslav, b.Madrid
11 Jul 1964;
m.Palma de Mallorca 15 Sep 1989 Rosario Nadal y
Fuster-Puigdorfila (b.Palma de Mallorca 22 Oct 1968)
1d) Mafalda-Cecilia Preslavska,
b.London
27 Jul 1994
2d) Olimpia Preslavska,
b.London 13 Dec 1995
3d)
Tassilo, b.20 Jan 2002
3c) Kubrat,
Pr of Panagjuriste, b.
Madrid 5 Nov 1965; m.Madrid 2 Jul 1993
Carla-Maria Royo-Villanova y
Urrestarazu (b.Madrid 3 Jan 1969)
1d) Mirko Panagjurski,
b.Madrid 26 Apr 1995
2d) Lucas Panagjurski,
b.Madrid 15 Jul 1997
3d) Tirso,
b.Madrid 3 Jun 2002
4c) Konstantin-Assen, Pr of
Vidin, b.Madrid 5 Dec
1967;
m.Madrid 7 Jul 1994 Maria
Garcia de la
Rasilla y Gortazar (b.Madrid 13 May 1970)
1d) Umberto, b.20 Nov 1999
2d)
Sofia, b.20 Nov 1999
5c) Kalina,
b.Madrid 19 Jan 1972; m.Borovets,
Bulgaria 26 Oct 2002 Antonio Muñoz Valcárcel
(b.Sidi Ifni, Morocco
19 Nov 1958)
2a) Kyril Heinrich Franz Ludwig Anton Karl Philipp,
Prince
Regent 1943-4 (Sofia 17 Nov 1895-executed at Sofia 1 Feb 1945)
3a) Eudoxia Augusta Philippine Clementine Maria
(Sofia 17 Jan 1898-Friedrichshafen 4 Oct 1985)
4a) Nadejda Clementine Maria Pia Majella (Sofia
30 Jan
1899-Stuttgart 15 Feb 1958); m.Bad-Margentheim 24 Jan 1924
Albrecht Eugen Duke of Württemberg (Stuttgart
8 Jan 1895-Schwäbisch-Gmünd 24 Jun 1954)
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