Ferdinand I of Bulgaria











































































Ferdinand I
Zar Ferdinand Bulgarien.jpg
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
Spouse

Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
(m. 1893; died 1899)



Princess Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz
(m. 1908)
Issue
Boris III of Bulgaria
Kiril, Prince of Preslav
Princess Eudoxia
Princess Nadezhda



Full name

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
Signature Ferdinand I's signature

Ferdinand I (Bulgarian: Фердинанд I; 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948),[1] born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was the second monarch of the Third Bulgarian State, firstly as ruling prince (knyaz) from 1887 to 1908, and later as king (tsar) from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. He was also an author, botanist, entomologist and philatelist.




Contents






  • 1 Family background


  • 2 Prince of Bulgaria


  • 3 Tsar of Bulgaria


  • 4 Balkan Wars


  • 5 First World War and abdication


  • 6 Personal life


  • 7 Exile and death


  • 8 Titles, styles and honours


    • 8.1 Titles and styles


    • 8.2 Honours


      • 8.2.1 Domestic


      • 8.2.2 Foreign


      • 8.2.3 Honorary military appointments






  • 9 Ancestors


  • 10 See also


  • 11 References


  • 12 Books


  • 13 External links





Family background


Ferdinand was born on 26 February 1861 in Vienna, a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry. He was baptised in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna on 27 February, having as godparents Archduke Maximilian of Austria and his wife Princess Charlotte of Belgium.[2] He grew up in the cosmopolitan environment of Austro-Hungarian high nobility and also in their ancestral lands in Hungary and in Germany. The House of Koháry descended from an immensely wealthy Upper Hungarian noble family, who held the princely lands of Čabraď and Sitno in present-day Slovakia, among others. The family's property was augmented by Clémentine of Orléans' remarkable dowry.


The son of Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and his wife Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis Philippe I of the French, Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and of Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father August was a brother of King Ferdinand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota, were also first cousins of Ferdinand I's through his mother, a princess of Orléans. This made the Belgian siblings his first cousins, as well as his first cousins once removed. Indeed, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha had contrived to occupy, either by marriage or by direct election, several European thrones in the course of the 19th century. Following the family trend, Ferdinand was himself to found the royal dynasty of Bulgaria.[citation needed]



Prince of Bulgaria




The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarve, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.


The previous ruling prince of Bulgaria, Alexander of Battenberg, had abdicated in 1886 after a pro-Russian coup, only seven years after he had been elected.[3] Ferdinand, who was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, was elected Prince of autonomous Bulgaria by its Grand National Assembly on 7 July 1887 in the Gregorian calendar (the "New Style" used hereinafter).[3] In desperate attempts to prevent Russian occupation of Bulgaria, the throne had been previously offered, before Ferdinand's acceptance, to princes from Denmark to the Caucasus and even to the King of Romania.[4] The Russian tsar himself had nominated his aide, Nichols Dadian of Mingrelia, but his candidacy was rejected by the Bulgarians. Ferdinand's accession was greeted with disbelief in many of the royal houses of Europe; Queen Victoria, his father's first cousin, stated to her Prime Minister, "He is totally unfit ... delicate, eccentric and effeminate ... Should be stopped at once."[5] To the amazement of his initial detractors, Ferdinand generally made a success during the first two decades of his reign.[5]


Bulgaria's domestic political life was dominated during the early years of Ferdinand's reign by liberal party leader Stefan Stambolov, whose foreign policy saw a marked cooling in relations with Russia, formerly seen as Bulgaria's protector.


Stambolov's fall (May 1894) and subsequent assassination (July 1895) paved the way for a reconciliation of Bulgaria with Russia, effected in February 1896 with Ferdinand's decision to convert his infant son, Prince Boris, from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. However, this move earned him the animosity of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.



Tsar of Bulgaria


On 5 October 1908 (celebrated on 22 September), Ferdinand proclaimed Bulgaria's de jure independence from the Ottoman Empire (though the country had been de facto independent since 1878). He also proclaimed Bulgaria a kingdom, and assumed the title of tsar—a deliberate nod to the rulers of the earlier Bulgarian states. The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by him at the Holy Forty Martyrs Church in Tarnovo, and was recognized by Turkey and the other European powers.[4]


Ferdinand was known for being quite a character. On a visit to German Emperor Wilhelm II, his second cousin once removed, in 1909, Ferdinand was leaning out of a window of the New Palace in Potsdam when the Emperor came up behind him and slapped him on the bottom. Ferdinand was affronted by the gesture but the Kaiser arrogantly refused to apologize. Ferdinand however exacted his revenge by awarding a valuable arms contract he had intended to give to the Krupp's factory in Essen to French arms manufacturer Schneider-Creusot.[6] Another incident occurred on his journey to the funeral of his second cousin, King Edward VII in 1910. A tussle broke out over where his private railway carriage would be positioned in relation to the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Archduke won out, having his carriage positioned directly behind the engine. Ferdinand's was placed directly behind. Realising the dining car of the train was behind his own carriage, Ferdinand obtained his revenge on the Archduke by refusing him entry through his own carriage to the dining car.[7] On 15 July the same year during a visit to Belgium Ferdinand also became the first head of state to fly in an airplane.[8]



Balkan Wars


Main article: Balkan Wars

Like many other rulers before him, Ferdinand desired the creation of a "new Byzantium".[9] In 1912, Ferdinand joined the other Balkan states in an assault on the Ottoman Empire to free occupied territories. He saw this war as a new crusade declaring it, "a just, great and sacred struggle of the Cross against the Crescent."[10] Bulgaria contributed the most and also lost the greatest number of soldiers. The Great Powers insisted on the creation of an independent Albania.[4] Though the Balkan League allies had fought together against the common enemy in the First Balkan War, that was not enough to overcome their mutual rivalries. In the original documents for the Balkan League, Serbia and Greece had been pressured by Bulgaria to hand over most of Macedonia after they had freed it from Turkish rule. However Serbia and Greece, responding to popular protest, said that they would keep possession of the territories that their forces had occupied. Soon after, Bulgaria began the Second Balkan War when it invaded its recent allies Serbia and Greece to seize this territory, before being attacked itself by Romania and the Ottoman Empire. Although Bulgaria was defeated, the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest granted the Kingdom some territorial gains. A tiny area of land giving access to the Aegean Sea was secured.[4]



First World War and abdication


Main article: Bulgaria during World War I



Emperor Wilhelm and Tsar Ferdinand in Sofia, 1916


On 11 October 1915, the Bulgarian army attacked Serbia after signing a treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany stating that Bulgaria would gain the territory it sought at the expense of Serbia. While he was not an admirer of German Emperor Wilhelm II or Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I—whom he described as "that idiot, that old dotard of a Francis Joseph".[11]—Ferdinand wanted additional territorial gains after the humiliation of the Balkan Wars. This also entailed forming an alliance with his former enemy, the Ottoman Empire.


During the initial phase of World War I, the Tsardom of Bulgaria achieved several decisive victories over its enemies and laid claim to the disputed territories of Macedonia after Serbia's defeat. For the next two years, the Bulgarian army shifted its focus towards repelling Allied advances from nearby Greece. They were also partially involved in the 1916 conquest of neighboring Romania, now ruled by another Ferdinand I, who was also Ferdinand's second cousin once removed.


To save the Bulgarian monarchy after multiple military setbacks in 1918, Tsar Ferdinand abdicated in favour of his eldest son, who became Tsar Boris III on 3 October 1918.[12] Under new leadership, Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies and, as a consequence, lost not only the additional territory it had fought for in the major conflict, but also the territory it had won after the Balkan Wars giving access to the Aegean Sea.[12]



Personal life




WWI-era portrait of Ferdinand I


Ferdinand entered a marriage of convenience[13] with Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Parma and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca. The marriage produced four children:




  • Boris III (1894–1943)


  • Kyril (1895–1945)


  • Eudoxia (1898–1985)


  • Nadezhda (1899–1958).


Marie Louise died on 31 January 1899 after giving birth to her youngest daughter. Ferdinand did not think again about marriage until his mother, Princess Clémentine died in 1907. To satisfy dynastic obligations and to provide his children with a mother figure, Ferdinand married Princess Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, on 28 February 1908.[14] Neither romantic love or physical attraction played any role, and Ferdinand treated her as no more than a member of the household, and showed scant regard.[15]


In his private relations, Ferdinand was a somewhat hedonistic individual. Bisexual throughout his life, up until early middle age his inclination was more towards women.[16] He enjoyed affairs with a number of women of humble position, siring a number of illegitimate children whom he then supported financially.[15]


In his later life, rumours abounded of Ferdinand's trysts with lieutenants and valets. His regular holidays on Capri, then a popular holiday destination with wealthy gay men, were common knowledge in royal courts throughout Europe.[16] In 1895 an interview given by the embittered former Prime Minister, Stefan Stambolov to the Frankfurter Zeitung created a nine-day scandal across Europe, when he focused strongly on his personal witness of Ferdinand’s homosexual interests.[17]



Exile and death


After his abdication, Ferdinand returned to live in Coburg, Germany. He had managed to salvage much of his fortune and was able to live in some style.[18] He saw his being in exile simply as one of the hazards of kingship.[18] He commented, "Kings in exile are more philosophic under reverses than ordinary individuals; but our philosophy is primarily the result of tradition and breeding, and do not forget that pride is an important item in the making of a monarch. We are disciplined from the day of our birth and taught the avoidance of all outward signs of emotion. The skeleton sits forever with us at the feast. It may mean murder, it may mean abdication, but it serves always to remind us of the unexpected. Therefore we are prepared and nothing comes in the nature of a catastrophe. The main thing in life is to support any condition of bodily or spiritual exile with dignity. If one sups with sorrow, one need not invite the world to see you eat."[19] He was pleased that the throne could pass to his son. Ferdinand was not displeased with exile and spent much of his time devoted to artistic endeavors, gardening, travel and natural history.


However, he would live to see the collapse of everything he had held to be precious in life.[19] His eldest son and successor, Boris III, died under mysterious circumstances after returning from a visit to Hitler in Germany in 1943. Boris III's son, Simeon II, succeeded him only to be deposed in 1946, ending the Bulgarian monarchy. The Kingdom of Bulgaria was succeeded by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, under which Ferdinand's other son, Kyril, was executed. On hearing of Kyril's death he said, "Everything is collapsing around me."[20]


Ferdinand died a broken man in Bürglass-Schlösschen on 10 September 1948 in Coburg, Germany, cradle of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty. He was the last surviving grandchild of Louis-Philippe of France. His final wish was to be buried in Bulgaria, and for this reason his coffin was temporarily placed in the crypt of St. Augustin, Coburg, next to his parents' coffins.[citation needed]



Titles, styles and honours


















Styles of
King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
Royal Monogram of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Variant 3.svg
Reference style His Majesty
Spoken style Your Majesty
Alternative style Sir


Titles and styles




  • 26 February 1861 - 7 July 1887: His Highness Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony


  • 7 July 1887 – 5 October 1908: His Royal Highness The Prince of Bulgaria[21][22]


  • 5 October 1908 - 3 October 1918: His Majesty The King of the Bulgarians



Honours



Domestic


  • Grand Master of the following Bulgarian Orders:


    • Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius[23]

    • Order of Bravery

    • Order of St. Alexander

    • Order of Civil Merit

    • Order of Military Merit




Foreign





  • Albanian Kingdom (1928–39) Albanian Royal Family:


    • Order of Albania, Knight with Collar[24]


    • Order of Fidelity, Grand Cross Special Class[24]




  • Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Family:


    • Order of the Golden Fleece, Knight with Collar, 1911[23][25][26][27]


    • Military Order of Maria Theresa, Grand Cross with Collar[25]


    • Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, Grand Cross with Collar, 1899[25][28]

    • Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class




  •  Belgium: Royal Order of Leopold, Grand Cordon[29]


  • Empire of Brazil Brazilian Imperial Family: Order of the Rose, Grand Cross with Collar[29]


  •  Denmark: Order of the Elephant, Knight with Collar, 20 May 1910[23][30]


  •  French Third Republic: Legion of Honour, Grand Officer[31]

    • Kingdom of France Orléans-French Royal Family:


      • Order of Saint Michael, Grand Cross[25]


      • Order of Saint Lazarus, Grand Cross with Collar





  • German Empire German Imperial and Royal Family:


    • Order of the Black Eagle, Knight with Collar[23][32][33]


    • Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st Class[25]

    • Pour le Mérite


    • Kingdom of Bavaria Bavarian Royal Family:


      • Order of St. Hubert, Knight[23]


      • Military Order of Max Joseph, Grand Cross




    • Kingdom of Württemberg Württemberg Royal Family: Order of Military Merit, Grand Cross[34]




  • Kingdom of Italy Italian Royal Family:


    • Order of the Annunciation, Knight with Collar[23][31][35]


    • Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Grand Cross[31][35]


    • Order of the Crown of Italy, Grand Cordon


    • Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Two Sicilian Royal Family: Order of Saint Januarius, Knight


    • Duchy of Parma Parmese Ducal Family: Parmese Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, Grand Cross


    •  Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Bailiff Grand Cross of Justice, 1st Class[23][25][36][37][38]




  • Kingdom of Portugal Portuguese Royal Family: Sash of the Three Orders[29]


  • Russian Empire Russian Imperial Family:


    • Imperial Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, Knight with Collar, 1910[23]


    • Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, Knight, 1910


    • Imperial Order of St. Anna, Knight 1st Class, 1910


    • Imperial Order of the White Eagle, Knight, 1910


    • Imperial Order of Saint Prince Vladimir, Knight 1st Class




  • Restoration (Spain) Spanish Royal Family: Order of Calatrava, Grand Commander[31]


  •  Sweden: Royal Order of the Seraphim, Knight with Collar, 28 June 1937


  • Ottoman Empire Turkish Imperial Family:


    • Order of Distinction with Diamonds[39]


    • Order of the Crescent, Grand Cordon




  •  United Kingdom:


    • Royal Victorian Order, Honorary Grand Cross, 6 September 1904[21][22]

    • Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medal






Honorary military appointments



  •  Russian Empire: Colonel of the 54th Minsk Regiment – 1902[40]


Ancestors


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See also



  • List of Heads of state of Bulgaria by longevity

  • Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius



References





  1. ^ Louda, 1981, Lines of Succession, Table 149


  2. ^ Archiv der Domkirche St. Stephan, Wien, Taufbuch 1860-1865


  3. ^ ab Finestone, 1981, The Last Courts of Europe, p 227


  4. ^ abcd Louda, 1981, Lines of Succession, p 297


  5. ^ ab Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 83


  6. ^ Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, pp 8–9


  7. ^ Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 7


  8. ^ "King up in Aeroplane: Ferdinand of Bulgaria First Monarch to Do It – Sons Fly Also" (Adobe Acrobat). New York Times website. New York Times. 16 July 1910. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-07-17..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  9. ^ Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 86


  10. ^ Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 87


  11. ^ Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 126


  12. ^ ab Palmer, 1978, The Kaiser, p 206


  13. ^ Constant, 1986, ‘’Foxy Ferdinand’’, p 143


  14. ^ Aronson, p 85.


  15. ^ ab Stéphane Groueff, ‘’Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943’’, Madison Books, 1998.


  16. ^ ab Constant, Stephen Foxy Ferdinand, 1861-1948, Tsar of Bulgaria, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1979, pp. 96, 266.


  17. ^ Perry, Duncan M. Stefan Stambolov and the Emergence of Modern Bulgaria: 1870-1895, Duke University, 1993, p216.


  18. ^ ab Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 201


  19. ^ ab Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 175


  20. ^ Aronson, 1986, Crowns In Conflict, p 202


  21. ^ ab The London Gazette, issue 27711, p. 5775


  22. ^ ab Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, Volume I (London, 1906) page 430


  23. ^ abcdefgh Justus Perthes, Almanach de Gotha 1913 (1913) page 33


  24. ^ ab Wikimedia.org, Ferdinand wearing the Collar and largest star


  25. ^ abcdef Wikimedia.org, Photo of Ferdinand wearing French, Austrian, Italian, and German honours


  26. ^ http://i42.tinypic.com/2vbagbs.jpg


  27. ^ "Toison Espagnole (Austrian Fleece) - 20th century" (in French), Chevaliers de la Toison D'or. Retrieved 2018-11-18.


  28. ^ "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine.


  29. ^ abc Alamy.com, sketch of Ferdinand wearing the Belgian, Portuguese and Brazilian honours


  30. ^ Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 (in Danish). Syddansk Universitetsforlag. p. 469. ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2.


  31. ^ abcd Wikimedia.org, Photo1 of Ferdinand wearing the Italian, Spanish and French honours


  32. ^ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/2606493.jpg


  33. ^ http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/images/bulgaria4v.JPG


  34. ^ "Ferdinand wearing the order at the wedding of his daughter Princess Nadezhda to Prince Albrecht of Württemberg".


  35. ^ ab Wikimedia.org, Photo1 of Ferdinand wearing the Italian honours


  36. ^ http://www.kingsimeon.bg/wp-content/gallery/gallery-106/gallery-106_034.jpg


  37. ^ "The Majesties attended the celebrations of the 900th anniversary of the Sovereign Order of Malta". The Majesties attended the celebrations of the 900th anniversary of the Sovereign Order of Malta - H.R.H. King Simeon II.


  38. ^ "The Royal family attended the reception on the occasion of the Day of St. John the Baptist, patron of the Order of Malta". The Royal family attended the reception on the occasion of the Day of St. John the Baptist, patron of the Order of Malta - H.R.H. King Simeon II.


  39. ^ Kumanov, Мilen (2015). Bulgarian-Turkish relations during the First World War (1914 – 1918) – A collection of documents (PDF) (in Bulgarian) (2 ed.). Sofia: Gutenberg. p. 516. ISBN 978-619-176-034-3.


  40. ^ "Prince ferdinand at Kieff". The Times (36805). London. 27 June 1902. p. 7.




Books




  • Aronson, Theo (1986). Crowns In Conflict: The Triumph And The Tragedy Of European Monarchy, 1910–1918. London: J.Murray. ISBN 0-7195-4279-0.


  • Constant, Stephen (1986). Foxy Ferdinand, 1861–1948, Tsar of Bulgaria. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. ISBN 0-283-98515-1.


  • Louda, Jiri; Michael Maclagan (1981). Lines of Succession. London: Orbis Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-460-04519-9.


  • Massie, Robert K (1981). The Last Courts of Europe. London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-460-04519-9.


  • Palmer, Alan (1978). The Kaiser: Warlord Of The Second Reich. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-77393-3.



External links








  • Works by or about Ferdinand I of Bulgaria at Internet Archive

  • Historical photographs of the royal palace in Sofia

  • Encyclopædia Britannica


  • Newspaper clippings about Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in the 20th Century Press Archives of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW)






















Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Cadet branch of the House of Wettin

Born: 26 February 1861 Died: 10 September 1948
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Alexander I
Prince of Bulgaria
7 July 1887 – 5 October 1908
Proclaimed Tsar
Bulgarian independence
from Ottoman Empire

New title

Principality elevated
to kingdom
Tsar of Bulgaria
5 October 1908 – 3 October 1918
 Succeeded by
Boris III
Political offices
Preceded by
Alexander I
Governor-general of Eastern Rumelia
7 July 1887 – 5 October 1908
proclaimed Tsar
Bulgarian independence
from Ottoman Empire


























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