Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
Noble person
1655 – 1715
Who was Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen?
Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen was a duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
He was the ninth but sixth surviving son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg.
When his father died in 1675, Ernest and his six brothers jointly assumed the government of the duchy; five years later, in 1680, and under the treaty of division of the family lands, he received the towns of Hildburghausen, Eisfeld, Heldburg, Königsberg. Ernest became thereby founder and first duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After the death of his brothers Heinrich and Albrecht without male descendants, he took the towns of Sonnefeld and Behringen.
Ernest settled his official residence in Hildburghausen and began the building of his castle. In 1710 he approved the building in his lands of a new city of French Huguenot families, who were driven out after the Edict of Nantes from France.
As Master of Cavalry he fought in 1683 in the Battle of Vienna, and 1685 in the conquest of Gran and Neuhaeusel, after this he entered the Dutch States Army as a Colonel with the conquest of Kaiserswerth.
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- Born
- Jul 12, 1655
Gotha - Parents
- Spouses
- Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck
(1680/11/30 - 1702/10/15)
- Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck
- Children
- Died
- Oct 17, 1715
Hildburghausen
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on July 23, 2013
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