 The father of this child may have been Jules Gabriel Émile de Seigneux, a minor French nobleman and officer in the Prussian army.Eduard was ennobled by his mother's younger brother, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and assumed the surname "von Löwenfels" by decree on 18 February 1818.Later, Anna moved to Bern, Switzerland, and gave birth to a second illegitimate child in 1812, a daughter, named Louise Hilda Agnes d'Aubert.