| REFERENCE | TITLE | NAME | BORN | DIED | TITLE | NAME | BORN | DIED | COMMENTS | |
| 17 | King | Ferdinand I of Bulgaria | 1861 | 1948 | Princess | Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma | 1870 | 1899 | See
28.525 &
38.1 - Ferdinand was born Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, he was elected Prince of Bulgaria 7 July 1887 and proclaimed himself King (Tsar) of Bulgaria on 5 October 1908. Ferdinand was forced to abdicate in favour of his son Boris on 3 October 1918 following Bulgaria's defeat in World War I and he left Bulgaria to spend most of the rest of his life at Coburg, Germany. (Note: Bulgaria for centuries had been a province of the Ottoman Empire and in 1875 there was an abortive uprising of the Bulgarians against Turkish Rule. Russia invaded and defeated Turkey and by 1879 Bulgaria was granted autonomy under the Treaty of San Stefano. Prince Alexander of Battenberg was elected Prince of Bulgaria on 29 April 1879 and after strong pressure from Russia was forced to abdicate on 4 September 1886). Maria Luisa fell victim to pneumonia and died 24 hours after the birth of her daughter Nadejda. |
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| 17 | King | Ferdinand I of Bulgaria | 1861 | 1948 | Princess | Eleanor Reuss-Köstritz | 1860 | 1917 | See 28.525 - Ferdinand was born Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, he was elected Prince of Bulgaria 7 July 1887 and proclaimed himself King (Tsar) of Bulgaria on 5 October 1908. Ferdinand was forced to abdicate in favour of his son Boris on 3 October 1918 following Bulgaria's defeat in World War I and he left Bulgaria to spend most of the rest of his life at Coburg, Germany. | |
| 17.1 | King | Boris III of Bulgaria | 1894 | 1943 | Princess | Giovanna of Savoy (Italy) | 1907 | 2000 | See 8.1214 - Boris died in mysterious circumstances following a visit to Hitler. The official cause of death was given as "a thrombosis of the left artery to the heart, double pneumonia and a cerebral congestion". One theory is that the oxygen mask used by Boris in the airplane to fly back home had been tampered with | |
| 17.11 | Princess | Maria Louise of Bulgaria | 1933 | Prince | Karl of Leiningen | 1928 | 1990 | See 39.21232 | ||
| 17.11 | Princess | Maria Louise of Bulgaria | 1933 | Bronislaw Chrobok | 1933 | |||||
| 17.111 | Alexandra Chrobok | 1970 | Jorge Champalimaud Raposo de Magalhães | 1970 | ||||||
| 17.1111 | Luis Raposo de Magalhães | 2003 | ||||||||
| 17.1112 | Giovanna Raposo de Magalhães | 2006 | ||||||||
| 17.112 | Paul Chrobok | 1972 | ||||||||
| 17.12 | King | Simeon II of Bulgaria | 1937 | Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela | 1935 | Simeon and the Bulgarian Royal Family were expelled from Bulgaria on 16 September 1946 after a Communist Party staged-managed referendum. Simeon was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 24 July 2001 until 17 August 2005 and uses the name Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha (some sources show Simeon Borisov Sakskoburggotski, a correspondent emailed me on 26 November 2007 to advise this latter name was given by his political opponents and his somewhat derisory) . Simeon is Leader of the NATIONAL MOVEMENT SIMEON II (NMSS) . Margarita is the daughter of a Spanish marquis who along with his wife were executed by the Spanish Loyalists in 1936 at the outset of the Spanish Civil War. Margarita is a cousin of Luis Gomez-Acebo (Viscount de la Torre) (the husband of Infanta Maria del Pilar of Spain (Duchess of Badajoz)) | ||||
| 17.121 | Crown Prince | Kardam of Bulgaria (Prince of Tirnovo) | 1962 | Miriam Unigria y Lopez | 1963 | Tirnovo was Bulgaria's Ancient Capital | ||||
| 17.1211 | Prince | Boris of Bulgaria | 1997 | |||||||
| 17.1212 | Prince | Beltran of Bulgaria | 1999 | |||||||
| 17.122 | Prince | Kyril of Bulgaria (Prince of Preslav) | 1964 | Rosario Nadal y Fuster-Puigdorfila | 1968 | |||||
| 17.1221 | Princess | Mafalda of Bulgaria | 1994 | |||||||
| 17.1222 | Princess | Olympia of Bulgaria | 1995 | |||||||
| 17.1223 | Prince | Tasillo of Bulgaria | 2002 | |||||||
| 17.123 | Prince | Kubrat of Bulgaria (Prince of Panagiurishte) | 1965 | Carla-Maria Royo-Villanova y Urrestarazu | 1969 | |||||
| 17.1231 | Prince | Mirko of Bulgaria | 1995 | |||||||
| 17.1232 | Prince | Lucas of Bulgaria | 1997 | |||||||
| 17.1233 | Prince | Tirso of Bulgaria | 2002 | |||||||
| 17.124 | Prince | Konstantin-Assen of Bulgaria (Prince of Vidin) | 1967 | Maria Garcia de la Rasilla y Gortazar | 1970 | |||||
| 17.1241 | Prince | Umberto of Bulgaria | 1999 | Prince Umberto and Princess Sofia are twins | ||||||
| 17.1242 | Princess | Sofia of Bulgaria | 1999 | Prince Umberto and Princess Sofia are twins | ||||||
| 17.125 | Princess | Kalina of Bulgaria | 1972 | Antonio Muñoz Valcárcel | 1958 | Antonio is known as Kitín Muñoz | ||||
| 17.1251 | Simeon Hassan Muñoz | 2007 | ||||||||
| 17.2 | Prince | Kyril of Bulgaria (Prince of Preslav) | 1895 | 1945 | Kyril was a co-regent pending his nephew King Simeon II reaching his majority. Kyril along with the other two co-regents was shot by the Communists in Sofia | |||||
| 17.3 | Princess | Eudoxia of Bulgaria | 1898 | 1985 | ||||||
| 17.4 | Princess | Nadejda of Bulgaria | 1899 | 1958 | Duke | Albrecht Eugen of Württemberg | 1895 | 1954 | See 22.K3112 |