The Duchy of Saxe-Eisenberg was one of the

Saxon Duchies The Ernestine duchies (), also known as the Saxon duchies (, although the Albertine appanage duchies of Weissenfels, Merseburg and Zeitz were also "Saxon duchies" and adjacent to several Ernestine ones), were a group of small states whose numb ...

held by the Ernestine line of the Wettin Dynasty.

History

Established in 1680 for

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, fifth son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, the Duchy consisted of Eisenberg and the towns of Ronneburg,

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and Camburg. Upon his death in April 1707, as he had no male heirs, the lands were passed to

Saxe-Hildburghausen Saxe-Hildburghausen () was an Ernestine duchy in the southern side of the present State of Thuringia in Germany. It existed from 1680 to 1826 but its name and borders are currently used by the District of Hildburghausen. History After the Duk ...

Dukes of Saxe-Eisenberg

(1680–1707)

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