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 

Category:States of the Confederation of the Rhine
Category:States of the Holy Roman Empire
Category:Thuringia
Category:Weimar