Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

Ferdinand I Фердинанд I
Ferdinand in 1912
Tsar of Bulgaria
Reign	5 October 1908 – 3 October 1918
Predecessor	Himself as Prince
Successor	Boris III
Prince of Bulgaria
Reign	7 July 1887 – 5 October 1908
Predecessor	Alexander
Successor	Himself as Tsar
Born	26 February 1861 Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	10 September 1948(1948-09-10) (aged 87) Coburg, Allied-occupied Germany
Burial	St. Augustin, Coburg (1948–2024) Vrana Palace, Bulgaria (since 2024)
Spouses	Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma ​ ​ (m. 1893; died 1899)​ Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz ​ ​ (m. 1908; died 1917)​ Alžbeta Brezáková ​ (m. 1947)​
Issue	Boris III of Bulgaria Kiril, Prince of Preslav Princess Eudoxia Nadezhda, Duchess Albrecht Eugen of Württemberg
Names German: Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria
House	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
Father	Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Mother	Princess Clémentine of Orléans
Religion	Roman Catholic
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Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria; 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948) was Prince of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. Under his rule, Bulgaria entered the First World War on the side of the Central Powers in 1915.^[1]