Saxe-Gotha
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Thuringia, showing the combined territory of Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg, before it was again divided (1672 – 80) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital | Gotha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Government | Duchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Split from Saxe-Thuringia | 1553 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Split into Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Eisenach | 1572 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Split from Saxe-Weimar | 1640 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Partitioned in seven | 1680 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Saxe-Gotha (German: Sachsen-Gotha) was a state in today's Thuringia, Germany.
It was created in 1640 for Duke Ernest I and ended in 1680 when his lands were divided after his death in 1675. The area around Gotha passed to Ernest's eldest surviving son, Frederick of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who also inherited Altenburg (which Ernest had inherited through his wife Elisabeth Sophie) and became Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
[change] Dukes of Saxe-Gotha
- Ernest I the Pious (1640 – 75, also Duke of Saxe-Altenburg from 1672)
- Divided into Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Römhild, Saxe-Eisenberg, Saxe-Hildburghausen and Saxe-Saalfeld in 1680
When the house of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg became extinct in 1825, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was split. Saxe-Gotha passed to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld who in turn gave Saalfeld to Saxe-Meiningen. The Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen became Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and gave Saxe-Hildburghausen to Saxe-Meiningen.
After the abolition of German monarchies at the end of the First World War it became a part of the newly created state of Thuringia in 1920.
[change] References
- Saxe-Gotha, Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Columbia University Press (2001 – 05), accessed January 27 2007
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Saxe-Weimar (1572–1806) • Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach (1572–1596) • Saxe-Coburg (1596–1633; 1681–1699) • Saxe-Eisenach (1596–1638; 1640–1644; 1672–1806) • Saxe-Altenburg (1603–1672; 1826–1918) • Saxe-Gotha (1640–1680) • Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1681–1826) • Saxe-Marksuhl (1662–1672) • Saxe-Jena (1672–1690) • Saxe-Eisenberg (1680–1707) • Saxe-Hildburghausen (1680–1826) • Saxe-Römhild (1680–1710) • Saxe-Saalfeld (1680–1735) • Saxe-Meiningen (1681–1918) • Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1735–1826) • Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1806–1918) • Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1826–1918) |