Saxe-Weimar

**Saxe-Weimar** () was a duchy in Thuringia, Germany. The chief town and capital was Weimar.

## History

Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Gotha were the two original Ernestine Duchies. They both gradually shrank in size as land in Thuringia was divided among sons..

In 1741 Duke Ernest Augustus I of Saxe-Weimar inheritated the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach. Ernest Augustus II, who succeeded in 1748, died in 1758, and his young widow, Anna Amalia, became regent for her infant son, Charles Augustus. The regency of Anna Amalia and the reign of Charles Augustus were important in the history of Saxe-Weimar. Both intelligent patrons of literature and art, Anna Amalia and Charles Augustus attracted to their court the leading scholars in Germany, including Goethe, Schiller and Herder, and made Weimar an important cultural centre.

Charles Augustus joined Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars.  After France won the Battle of Jena, Saxe Weimar was forced to join the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. In 1809 Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been separate duchies with the same duke became one country as the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

## Dukes of Saxe-Weimar

- Johann Wilhelm (1554 – 73)
- Frederick Wilhelm I (1573 – 1602), son of Johann Wilhelm
- Johann (1602 – 05), son of Johann Wilhelm
- Johann Ernst I (1605 – 20), son of Johann
- Wilhelm (1620 – 62), son of Johann.
- Johann Ernst II (1662 – 83), son of Wilhelm
- Wilhelm Ernst (1683 – 1728), son of Johann Ernst II
- Johann Ernst III (1683 – 1707), son of Johann Ernst II
- Ernst August I (1707 – 48), son of Johann Ernst III
- Ernst August II (1748 – 58), son of Ernst August I
- Karl August (1758 – 1809), son of Ernst August II

Merged with Saxe-Eisenach to form Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

## Related pages

- Ernestine duchies

## References

- Saxe-Weimar , _The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia_, Sixth Edition, Columbia University Press (2001 – 2005), accessed December 22 2005

## Other websites

- German genealogies
- Genealogy of Dukes of Saxe-Weimar

## Infobox (former country)

- **native name**: _Herzogtum Sachsen-Weimar_
- **conventional long name**: Duchy of Saxe-Weimar
- **common name**: Saxe-Weimar
- **era**: Early modern period
- **status**: Vassal
- **status text**: List of states in the Holy Roman Empire, State of the Holy Roman Empire, then
State of the Confederation of the Rhine
- **empire**: Holy Roman Empire
- **government type**: Feudal monarchy
- **year start**: 1572
- **year end**: 1809
- **event start**: Division of Erfurt
- **event1**: Split off
Saxe-Altenburg
- **date event1**:  
1602
- **event2**: Split off
 Saxe-Eisenach, Eisenach and Saxe-Gotha, Gotha
- **date event2**:  
1640
- **event3**: Split off Saxe-Jena,
and  Saxe-Eisenach
- **date event3**:  
1672
- **event4**: Personal union, United with
Saxe-Eisenach
- **date event4**: 1741
- **event end**: Merged to form
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- **date end**:  
- **p1**: Electorate of Saxony
- **image p1**:
- **s1**: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- **flag s1**: Flagge Großherzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1813-1897).svg
- **image flag**: Großherzogin Sachsen Weimar.jpg
- **image coat**: Blason Duché de Saxe-Weimar.svg
- **image map**: SajoniaWeimar Map.svg
- **image map caption**: <span style="background: #81007f;"></span> Saxe-Weimar, shown within the other Ernestine duchies and <span style="background: #ff00fc;"></span> Saxe-Jena, joined to Saxe-Weimar in 1690
- **capital**: Weimar