Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (

Coburg Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it was ...

, 8 August 1709 –

Meiningen Meiningen () is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 25,000 (2021).

, 24 February 1729), was a duke of Saxe-Meiningen. He was the third but second surviving son of

Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (7 October 1672 – 24 November 1724) was a German (Saxon) nobleman. Biography He was born in Gotha, the eldest son of Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and his first wife, Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmsta ...

and his first wife,

Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (22 January 1674 – 18 April 1713) was Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen as the first wife of Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. She was the daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and his ...

. The death of his older brother Josef Bernhard (22 March 1724) made him the heir to the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. When his father died seven months later (24 November 1724), Ernst Ludwig - fifteen years old- inherited the duchy along with his younger brother Karl Frederick. Because the two princes were under age when their father died, their uncles Frederik Wilhelm and Anton Ulrich served as their guardians until 1733. Ernst Ludwig died after reigning five years, only twenty years old and unmarried. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Karl Frederick.

Ancestry

References

* Hannelore Schneider: ''Das Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen unter seinen ersten Herzögen.'' In: Verona Gerasch (Red.): ''Beiträge zum Kolloquium: 300 Jahre Schloss Elisabethenburg'' (= ''Südthüringer Forschungen.'' Bd. 27, ). Staatliche Museen, Meiningen 1994, S. 12–19. * Ludwig Hertel: ''Meiningische Geschichte von 1680 bis zur Gegenwart'' (= ''Schriften des Vereins für Sachsen-Meiningische Geschichte und Landeskunde.'' Heft 47, = ''Neue Landeskunde des Herzogtums Sachsen-Meiningen.'' Heft 10). Gadow & Sohn, Hildburghausen 1904
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