Ferdinand I was King of Romania from 1914 to 1927. He was born in Germany in 1865 to a German royal family, the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. In 1893, Ferdinand married his cousin Princess Marie of Edinburgh. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters together, though their marriage was unhappy. Ferdinand became the first King of Romania after the country proclaimed itself a kingdom in 1881. He helped unify and modernize Romania during his reign.

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Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad; 24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927), nicknamed Întregitorul ("the Unifier"),
was King of Romania from 10 October 1914 until his death in 1927.
Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany, the Roman Catholic Prince Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad
of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The name was later shortened simply to Hohenzollern after the extinction of the Hohenzollern-
Hechingen branch in 1869. The princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen had ruled the principality until 1850, when it was annexed
to Prussia.
Ferdinand I was the son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal (1845–1913), daughter
of Queen Maria II of Portugal and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, heir to the Slovakian-originated Hungarian
magnates of Kohary on his mother's side.
In Sigmaringen on 10 January 1893, Prince Ferdinand of Romania married his distant cousin, the Lutheran Princess Marie of
Edinburgh, daughter of Anglican Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and the Orthodox Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of
Russia. Marie and Ferdinand were third cousins in descent from Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Marie's
paternal grandparents were Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Her maternal grandparents
were Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. The reigning Emperor of the neighbouring Russia, at the time of the
marriage was Marie's uncle, Tsar Alexander III, who would be succeeded by his eldest son, Marie's cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, the
following year.
The marriage produced 3 sons: Carol, Nicholas and Mircea (one of whom, Mircea, died in infancy) and 3 daughters:
Elisabeta, Maria (Mignon) and Ileana. The marriage was unhappy and the couple's two youngest children, Ileana and Mircea, are
generally acknowledged to have been sired by Marie's long-time lover, Barbu Știrbey.
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Mihai Daniel Frumușelu
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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
i/Ferdinand_I_of_Romania
Keywords : Ferdinand I, Sigmaringen, Princess Marie