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Achivement of the Reigning Duke OF Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.—From the Garter plate of the Arms in S George's Chapel, Windsor.—1, Or, a lion rampant sa. Julich. 2. Gu a shield arg. Issuing therefrom eight sceptres or Cleve. 3. Arg. a lion rampant double qneued gu. ducally crowned or, Berg. 4. Gu. three hearts or, Engern. 5. Gu a horse courant arg. Westphilla. 6. Sa. a lion double qnened or, Coburg. 7. Az. a lion rampant double queued bandy arg. and gu. ducally crowned or, Thüringen. 8. Or, a lion rampant double queued en. Meissen. 8. Per pale, dexter, gu. a column arg. ducaily crowned or, Römhild; sinister, on a mount vert a cock sa. Henneberg. 10. Per fesse arg. and az. a lion rampant counterchanged, ducally crowned or, Lichtenberg. 11. Az. an eagle displayed or Palatinate of Saxony. 12. Sa. an eagle displayed or, Palatinate of Thüringen. 13. Ax. two pellets or, Lansberg. 14. Arg. three buck’s horns gu. Borna. 15. Or, semée of hearts gu., a lion rampant sa. ducally crowned of the second, Orlamünde or Weimar. 16. Az. a lion rampant, per fesse or and arg. Pleissen. 17. Arg. a rose gu. Altenburg. 18. Arg. three barrulets as. Eisenberg. 19. Or, a fesse chequy arg. and gu. La Marck. 20. Arg. three chevrenels gu. Ravensberg. 21. Gu. Jus regale. 22. Az. a lion pasaant arg. Tonna. 23. Gu on a bendlet arg. a raven ppr. holding an annulet or, Ravenstien; over all an escocheon: Barry of ten or 2 nd sa. In bend a rue crown vert, Saxony.
Crests.—1. Out of a ducal coronet a conical cap charged with the arms of Saxony crowned with a like coronet and therein a tuft of peacock's feathers ppr. Saxony. 2. On a wreath the bust of a man in profile mantled ppr., a pointed cap paly gu. and arg. Meissen. 3. Out of a coronet a pair of trumpet horns arg., issuing from the exterior side of each spears gu. headed org., adorned with leaves or, Thüringen. 4. A griffn's head, and neck erased or, collared gu., wings displayed sa. Julich. 5. A buffalo's head gu., armed and ringed arg., crowned or, the circle chequy arg. and gu. Cleve and La Marck. 6. Out of a coronet a peacock’s tall ppr. Berg.
THE REIGNING HOUSE OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA.
ERNEST II. AUGUSTUS CHARLES JOHN LEOPOLD ALEXANDER EDWARD, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Jülich, Cleve and Berg, Engern and Westphalia, Landgrave of Thüringen, and Margrave of Meissen, &c., K.G., general of Prussian cavalry, lieut.-gen. Saxony cavalry, chief of Magdeburg regt. of Prussian cuirassiers; s. his father, Duke Ernest, 29 Jan. 1844; b. 21 June, 1818; in. 3 May, 1842, Princess Alexandrina Louisa Amelia Frederica Elizabeth Sophia, eldest dau. of Leopold, late Grand Duke of Baden; b. 6 Dec. 1820.
