Prince Rainier of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Rainer Maria Joseph Florian Ignatius Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga, 4th Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry, in Hungarian: Rainer Maria ..., in German: Rainer Maria Joseph Florian Ignatius Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry (Pola, 4 May 1900 – after 7 January 1945 [believed to have been killed in action at Budapest]), was a Hungarian magnate, being also a prince from the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and holder of Csábrág and Szitnya, both in modern day Slovakia.

Biography

He was the second son of August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary and his wife Archduchess Karoline Marie, Princess of Tuscany.

The deaths of his older brother August (1908) and his father (1922), made him the next in line of the succession of the Kohary branch of Saxe-Gotha family.

In Munich on 15 December 1930 Rainer married, first, Johanna Károlyi de Károly-Patty. They had one son:

1. Johann Heinrich Frederick Werner Konrad Rainer Maria (b. Innsbruck, 28 March 1931 - d. Innsbruck, 14 April 2010).

Rainer and Johanna were divorced in 1935.

In Budapest, on 13 February 1940, Rainer married, second, Edith de Kózol. They had no children.

Ancestry

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