  prince frederick josias of saxe-coburg-saalfeld (german friedrich josias von sachsen-coburg-saalfeld) (26 december 1737 â 26 february 1815) was a general in the austrian service. ==biography== born at schloÃ ehrenburg in coburg, he was the youngest son of duke francis josias, duke of saxe-coburg-saalfeld and anna sophie, princess of schwarzburg-rudolstadt. he was the great-uncle of king leopold i of belgium (1790-1865); and the great-great-uncle of queen victoria of the united kingdom (1819-1901). ===military career=== josias joined the habsburg military as colonel in 1759, participated in the seven years' war, and rose to the rank of lieutenant field marshal by 1773. in the russo-turkish-austrian war of 1788, he commanded an army corps under freiherr von laudon, occupying moldavia, capturing khotyn in bessarabia and sharing in aleksandr suvorov's victory in the battle of focÈani (1 august 1789). having completely beaten the main ottoman army under grand vizier koca yusuf pasha in the battle of rymnik, he captured the greater part of wallachia, including bucharest, being welcomed by the population after the flight of prince nicholas mavrogenes (see history of bucharest), and soon after becoming a field marshal. during the occupation of moldavia, josias met therese stroffeck, a commoner. on 24 september 1789, in the town of roman, she bore him a son, named frederick. josias married with therese after their return to coburg, on 24 december and recognized his son. frederick was ennobled by the austrian emperor on 25 august 1808 and on 17 february 1853 the duke ernst ii of saxe-coburg-gotha created him freiherr von rohmann, named after the place of his birth. frederick however, as the child of a morganatic marriage, and his descenda
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