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Lutheran. Johann Ernst of Saxe-Eisenach ( Gotha, 9 July 1566 – Eisenach, 23 October 1638), was a duke of Saxe-Eisenach and later of Saxe-Coburg. He was the fourth (but second surviving) and youngest son of Johann Frederick II, Duke of Saxony and Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Simmern-Sponheim . His grandfather, Johann Frederick I, had still ...
John Casimir was born at Grimmenstein Castle in Gotha on 12 June 1564 as the middle of three sons of Duke John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony and his wife Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Simmern-Sponheim. Because of the Holy Roman Empire's sanctions (Reichsexekution) against Gotha, his father lost on 15 April 1567 his dominions and freedom.
John Frederick II of Saxony (8 January 1529 – 19 May 1595), was Duke of Saxony, and briefly, Elector of Saxony (1554–1556).
John Frederick II of Saxony, was Duke of Saxony. John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony Jan 8, 1529 - May 19, 1595
John Frederick II of Saxony, was Duke of Saxony. John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony Jan 8, 1529 - May 19, 1595
Woodcut of John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony. Half length with cap, beard, doublet, and embroidered robes edged in fur, holding gloves in left hand. The print has been cut down to the outline of the sitter, and adhered to a secondary sheet of paper with a pen and ink border and a handwritten title below.This print is from a series of thirty-four portraits of the rulers of Saxony from the ninth ...
However, in 1822 Clement died unmarried in Italy, and John was now only preceded in the line of succession by his older brother Frederick Augustus. When his uncle Anton succeeded his older brother as king (1827), John became the third in line to the throne, and after his father Maximilian renounced his succession rights in 1830, John became in the second in line.
