BULGARIA

I. House of Battenberg

ALEXANDER Joseph Pr von Battenberg (see HESSE) was b.Verona 5 Apr 1857 and d.Graz 17 Nov 1893; he was elected Prince of Bulgaria 29 Apr 1879 and abdicated 3 Sep 1886; he m.at Mentone 6 Feb 1889 Johanna Marie Luise Loisinger (Preßburg 18 Apr 1865-Vienna 20 Jul 1951)

1a) Assène Ludwig Alexander Gf von Hartenau (Graz 16 Jan 1890-Vienna 15 Mar 1965); m.Vienna 7 May 1934 Bertha Hussa (Hermagor, Kärnten 1 Dec 1890-Vienna 4 Nov 1971)

2a) Marie Therese Vera Zwetana Gfn von Hartenau (Graz 24 Oct 1893-Oberstdorf, Bavaria 24 Nov 1935); m.New York 29 Dec 1924 Charles Hercule Boissevain (Amsterdam 18 Oct 1893-Colorado Springs 19 Oct 1946)

II. House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

The members of this family bear the titles Prince[ss] of Bulgaria, Duke/Duchess of Saxony, Royal Highness.

FERDINAND Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria Pr of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (see SAXONY), b.Vienna 26 Feb 1861, d.Coburg 10 Sep 1948, was elected Prince of Bulgaria 7 Jul 1887 and proclaimed himself King (Tsar) of the Bulgarians 5 Oct 1908; he abdicated on 3 Oct 1918; he m.1^st Villa Pianore 20 Apr 1893 Marie Louise Pss of Bourbon-Parma (Rome 17 Jan 1870-Sofia 31 Jan 1899); m.2^nd (Catholic) Coburg 28 Feb 1908 (Prot.) Schloß Osterstein 1 Mar 1908 Eleonore Pss Reuss (Trebschen 22 Aug 1860-Euxinograd 12 Sep 1917)

1a) BORIS III Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver, King of the Bulgarians (Sofia 30 Jan 1894-Sofia 28 Aug 1943); m.Assisi 25 Oct 1930 Giovanna Pss of Savoy (Rome 13 Nov 1907-Estoril 26 Feb 2000)

1b) Maria Luisa, b.Sofia 13 Jan 1933; m.1^st (civ) Amorbach 14 Feb 1957 (rel) Cannes 20 Feb 1957 (div 1968) Karl Pr zu Leiningen (Coburg 2 Jan 1928-Vered Hagalil, Israel 28 Sep 1990); m.2^nd Toronto, Ontario 16 Nov 1969 Bronislaw Chrobok (b.Kattowitz 27 Aug 1933); sources have reported that King Simeon in early 2012 ceded the title “Fürstin Koháry” to her and to the children of her second marriage

1c) Paul Alastair Antoni Chrobok, b.Toronto 3 May 1972

2c) Alexandra-Nadejda Chrobok, b.Toronto 14 Sep 1970; m.Estoril 7 Sep 2001 Jorge Champalimaud Raposo de Magalhães (b.Lisbon 16 Sep 1970)

1d) Luis Champalimaud Chrobok Raposo de Magelhaes, b.Lisbon 15 Dec 2003

2d) Giovanna Chrobok Raposo de Magelhaes, b.Lisbon 27 Nov 2006

3d) Clementine Maria Carolina Antonia Chrobok Raposo de Magelhaes, b.21 Apr 2010

2b) SIMEON II, King of the Bulgarians from the death of his father until he was forced into exile in 1946; b.Sofia 16 Jun 1937; m.(civ) Lausanne 20 Jan 1962 (rel) Vevey 21 Jan 1962 Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela (b.Madrid 6 Jan 1935)

1c) Kardam, Pr of Tirnovo, b.Madrid 2 Dec 1962; m.Madrid 11 Jul 1996 Miriam Ungria y López (b.Madrid 2 Sep 1963)

1d) Boris, b.Madrid 10 Oct 1997

2d) Beltran, b.Madrid 23 Mar 1999

2c) Kyrill, Pr of Preslav, b.Madrid 11 Jul 1964; m.Palma de Mallorca 15 Sep 1989 Rosario Nadal y Fuster-Puigdorfila (b.Palma de Mallorca 22 Oct 1968)

1d) Mafalda-Cecilia Preslavska, b.London 27 Jul 1994

2d) Olimpia Preslavska, b.London 13 Dec 1995

3d) Tassilo, b.20 Jan 2002

3c) Kubrat, Pr of Panagjuriste, b.Madrid 5 Nov 1965; m.Madrid 2 Jul 1993 Carla-Maria Royo-Villanova y Urrestarazu (b.Madrid 3 Jan 1969)

1d) Mirko Panagjurski, b.Madrid 26 Apr 1995

2d) Lucas Panagjurski, b.Madrid 15 Jul 1997

3d) Tirso, b.Madrid 3 Jun 2002

4c) Konstantin-Assen, Pr of Vidin, b.Madrid 5 Dec 1967; m.Madrid 7 Jul 1994 Maria Garcia de la Rasilla y Gortazar (b.Madrid 13 May 1970)

1d) Umberto, b.20 Nov 1999

2d) Sofia, b.20 Nov 1999

5c) Kalina, b.Madrid 19 Jan 1972; m.Borovets, Bulgaria 26 Oct 2002 Antonio Muñoz Valcárcel (b.Sidi Ifni, Morocco 19 Nov 1958)

2a) Kyril Heinrich Franz Ludwig Anton Karl Philipp, Prince Regent 1943-4 (Sofia 17 Nov 1895-executed at Sofia 1 Feb 1945)

3a) Eudoxia Augusta Philippine Clementine Maria (Sofia 17 Jan 1898-Friedrichshafen 4 Oct 1985)

4a) Nadejda Clementine Maria Pia Majella (Sofia 30 Jan 1899-Stuttgart 15 Feb 1958); m.Bad-Margentheim 24 Jan 1924 Albrecht Eugen Duke of Württemberg (Stuttgart 8 Jan 1895-Schwäbisch-Gmünd 24 Jun 1954)