The Duchy of Saxe-Marksuhl 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. Established in 1662 for John George I, third son of

Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar ( Altenburg, 11 April 1598 – Weimar, 17 May 1662), was a duke of Saxe-Weimar. Wilhelm was the fifth (but third surviving) son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt. He was brother to Be ...

. Originally John George was supposed to share Saxe-Eisenach with his older brother, Adolf William. Johann Georg finally accepted the receipt of an income from the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach and made his residence in the small town of Marksuhl. Saxe-Marksuhl was reincorporated into

Saxe-Eisenach Saxe-Eisenach (german: Sachsen-Eisenach) was an Ernestine duchy ruled by the Saxon House of Wettin. The state intermittently existed at three different times in the Thuringian region of the Holy Roman Empire. The chief town and capital of all t ...

on the accession of John George to the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach upon his nephew's death in 1671.

Duke of Saxe-Marksuhl

* John George I (1662–1671)

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{{Coord missing, Thuringia 1662 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire 1671 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire States and territories established in 1662 Marksuhl