Wilhelm August, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (30 November 1668 – 23 February 1671) was born at
Eisenach
Eisenach () is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, situat ...
, the youngest and only surviving son of
Adolf Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Adolf Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (Weimar, 15 May 1632 – Eisenach, 21 November 1668), was a duke of Saxe-Eisenach.
He was the fourth but second surviving son of Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau.
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and
Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
All his older brothers died before his father, and Wilhelm August, the fifth and youngest child, was born nine days after the death of Adolf Wilhelm (21 November 1668) and succeeded him in the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach from the moment of his birth, under the guardianship of his uncle Johann Georg.
A sickly boy, he died at Eisenach when only two years old, and Eisenach was inherited by Johann Georg.
House of Wettin
1668 births
1671 deaths
People from Eisenach
Dukes of Saxe-Eisenach
Monarchs who died as children
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