Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Duchess Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was a princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Duchess in Saxony by birth, and by marriage a Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.Ancestry
She was the daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalena Sibylle, Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels.
Her father was a fourth-generation descendant of John Frederick, Elector of Saxony in direct male line. He was also a fourth-generation descendant of his wife Sybille of Cleves who was daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves and older sister of both Anne of Cleves and Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
The Elector was father to John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. He married Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, a daughter of Frederick III, Elector Palatine.
They were parents to John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. He married Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, a granddaughter of Christoph, Duke of Württemberg and great-granddaughter of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg.
John and Dorothea Maria were parents to Ernst I, Duke of Saxe Coburg. He married his cousin Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg. As a result, their son Frederick I inherited both Duchies as the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1675.Marriage
She married Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. They had the following children:
Via her eponymous daughter, Anna Sophie was an ancestor of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their cousins Carlota of Mexico and Leopold II of BelgiumAncestry
