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{{Expand German|topic=bio|Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg|date=September 2012}}
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| name = Prince Eduard
| full name      =Eduard Karl Wilhelm Christian von Sachsen-Altenburg
| image          = Prinz Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg.jpg
| image_size     =180px
| caption =
| spouse         =[[Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]] <br> Princess Luise Caroline Reuss of Greiz
| issue          =[[Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg|Princess Therese, Duchess of Dalarna]]<br>[[Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg|Antoinette, Duchess of Anhalt]] <br> Prince Ludwig Joseph <br> Prince Johann Friedrich <br>[[Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg|Prince Albert]] <br> [[Princess Marie Gasparine of Saxe-Altenburg|Marie Gasparine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]]
| house    =[[House of Wettin]]
| father         =[[Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]]
| mother         =[[Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]]
| birth_date  ={{Birth date|1804|7|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Hildburghausen]]
| death_date  ={{Death date and age|1852|5|16|1804|7|3|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Munich]]
| place of burial=
|}}
'''Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg''' ([[Hildburghausen]], 3 July 1804 &ndash; [[Munich]], 16 May 1852), was a German prince of the ducal house of [[Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (of [[Saxe-Altenburg]] from 1826).
==Family==
He was the seventh but fourth surviving son of [[Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826) and [[Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]].
==Life==
===Military career===
Eduard accompanied his nephew [[Otto of Greece|Otto]] to Greece as head of the Bavarian military contingent. After the [[London Conference of 1832]] had decided that Greece should have a monarchy, it was offered to Otto, who accepted, and he became the first King of the newly independent Greece in 1832, and the Bavarians led by Otto arrived in the same year. Otto made Eduard governor of [[Nafplio]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ross |first1=Ludwig |title=Erinnerungen und Mittheilungen aus Griechenland. |date=1863 |publisher=R. Gaertner |page=49}}</ref>
Eduard's stay in Greece was brief, however, and he had returned to Bavaria by 1834, where he served as a senior officer. He served as a commander of the Bavarian forces in the [[First Schleswig War]] on the side of the [[German Confederation]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cohn |first1=Martin |title=Von der Elbe bis zur Tauber: Der Feldzug der preussischen Main-Armee im Deutschen Krieg |date=1868 |publisher=Velhagen & Klasing |page=101}}</ref> He remained in military service until a year before his death in 1852.
===Marriages and issue===
He married firstly in [[Sigmaringen]] on 25 July 1835 to [[Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]]. They had four children:
# [[Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg|Therese Amalie Karoline Josephine Antoinette]] (b. Ansbach, 21 December 1836 - d. Stockholm, 9 November 1914), married on 16 April 1864 to [[Prince August, Duke of Dalarna|Prince August of Sweden]].
# [[Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg|Antoinette Charlotte Marie Josephine Karoline Frida]] (b. Bamberg, 17 April 1838 - d. Berchtesgaden, 13 October 1908), married on 22 April 1854 to [[Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt]].
# Ludwig Joseph Karl Georg Friedrich (b. Bamberg, 24 September 1839 - d. Munich, 13 February 1844) died in childhood.
# Johann Friedrich Joseph Karl (b. Sigmaringen, 8 January 1841 - d. Munich, 25 February 1844) died in childhood.
He married secondly in [[Greiz]] on 8 March 1842 to Princess Luise Caroline [[Principality of Reuss-Greiz|Reuss of Greiz]], daughter of [[Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz|Heinrich XIX]]. They had two children:
#[[Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg|Albert Heinrich Joseph Carl Viktor Georg Friedrich]] (b. Munich, 14 April 1843 - d. Serrahn, 22 May 1902). He married first [[Princess Marie of Prussia (1855–1888)|Princess Marie of Prussia]] and secondly [[Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]].
#[[Princess Marie Gasparine of Saxe-Altenburg|Marie Gasparine Amalie Antoinette Karoline Elisabeth Luise]] (b. Munich, 28 June 1845 - d. Sondershausen, 5 July 1930), married on 12 June 1869 to [[Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]].
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg'''
|2= 2. [[Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]]
|3= 3. [[Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]]
|4= 4. [[Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]]
|5= 5. [[Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar]]
|6= 6. [[Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg]]
|7= 7. [[Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|8= 8. [[Ernst Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]]
|9= 9. [[Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau]]
|10= 10. [[Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
|11= 11. [[Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]]
|12= 12. [[Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg]]
|13= 13. [[Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen]]
|14= 14. [[Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|15= 15. [[Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg]]
|16= 16. [[Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]]
|17= 17. [[Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach]]
|18= 18. Philipp Karl, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau
|19= 19. Countess Charlotte Amalie of Kunowitz
|20= 20. [[Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]]
|21= 21. Princess Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst
|22= 22. [[George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]]
|23= 23. [[Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck]]
|24= 24. [[Adolf Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]]
|25= 25. Princess Christiane Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
|26= 26. [[Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (= 16)
|27= 27. [[Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach]] (= 17)
|28= 28. [[Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|29= 29. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg
|30= 30. Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim
|31= 31. Countess Catharine Polyxene of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim
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