Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, 2nd Princess of Koháry

Princess Mária Antónia Gabriella Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya (; 2 July 1797 – 25 September 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the ancestor of several European monarchs. She was the sole heiress of the House of Koháry, which belonged to one of the three largest landowners in Hungary.

Early life She was born in Buda, as Countess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, the second child of Franz Josef, Count Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya and his wife, Countess Maria Antonia von Waldstein-Wartenberg. Her older brother Franz died, aged five, on 19 April 1798. This left Antónia as the sole heir to the vast fortune of the House of Koháry.

Life On 30 November 1815, in Vienna, Maria Antonia married Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As late as 1868, when Antónia's grandson Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alencon, married, it was estimated that he and his three siblings stood to inherit a total of a million francs just from their share of their late grandmother's estate.

Marriage and issue She and her husband became the parents of four children:

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