what was saxe coburg
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was an Ernestine duchy ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day States of Bavaria and Thuringia of Germany.