Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Francis
Francis
	Portrait by Johann Heinrich Schröder, 1800
Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Reign	8 September 1800 – 9 December 1806
Predecessor	Ernest Frederick
Successor	Ernest III
Born	Franz Friedrich Anton Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld; 15 July 1750; Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Holy Roman Empire
Died	9 December 1806 (aged 56); Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Holy Roman Empire
Spouses	Princess Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen (m. 1776; died 1776); Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (m. 1777);
Issue	Sophie, Countess of Mensdorff-Pouilly; Antoinette, Duchess of Württemberg; Anna, Grand Duchess of Russia; Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Ferdinand, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry; Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn; Princess Marianne; Leopold I of Belgium; Prince Franz;
House	Wettin; Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld;
Father	Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Mother	Duchess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Religion	Lutheranism

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (in German and fully Franz Friedrich Anton, Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld, 15 July 1750 – 9 December 1806), was a reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, one of the ruling Thuringian dukes of the House of Wettin. As progenitor of a line of Coburg princes who, in the 19th and 20th centuries, ascended the thrones of several European realms, he is a patrilineal ancestor of the royal houses of Belgium and Bulgaria (and also of Portugal until the death of King Manuel II in 1932 and the United Kingdom until the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022), as well as of several queens consort and the empress consort of Mexico in the 1860s.