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Page created 15 March 2002. Corrected and updated 28.08.2003
 

H.M.
Léopold I
King of the Belgians

1790-1865

    
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

    Military Service
    Other Military Connections

    Links
 
  Vita Index of Royal Colonels
Index of Reigns & Peerages
full name:   Léopold Georg Christian Friedrich
birth: 1790.12.16 at Coburg
father:   Franz Friedrich Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
mother:   Augusta, Grafin Reuss zu Ebersdorf
marriage (I): 1816.05.02 Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, Ireland and Hannover
at London, England
  children (I): 1817 stillborn baby
marriage (II): 1832.08.09 Louise Marie d'Orléans
at Compiègne
children (II): 1833 Louis Philippe Léopold Victor Ernest (d.1834)
  1835 Léopold II Louis Philippe Marie Victor (King of the Belgians)
  1837 Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudoin Léopold Georges, Count of Flanders [father of King Albert I]
  1840 Maria Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine
accession: 1831.06.04 (by election)
coronation:
death: 1865.12.10 at Laeken
  Titles, Orders and Awards
Titles:
  Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of Saxony
1831.06.04 King of the Belgians
 
British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
1816.05.02 Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG)
1816.05.02 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
1816.05.02 Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (GCH)
   
Belgian Orders and Awards:
 
   
Foreign Orders and Awards:
   Honorary Military Appointments
1816.05.24 Field Marshal
1816.10.18 Colonel, 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
[regiment named in 1823 for his late wife; tenure expired 1831]
 
   Military Service
British: none
   
Belgian: [beyond the scope of this site]
 
   Other Military Connections
   
 
   Links