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Christian of Saxe-Eisenberg (6 January 1653 – 28 April 1707) was a duke of Saxe-Eisenberg . He was born in Gotha, the eighth, but fifth surviving, son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg and Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg . Christian had traveled far in his youth and was interested early in History and Art.
Ernst II of Saxe-Altenburg (born Ernst Bernhard Georg Johann Karl Friedrich Peter Albert von Wettin) is the 5th and current ruler of the Thuringian Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, one of the constituent states of the German Empire, succeeding his uncle Ernst on 7 February 1908. Loved by his people and renowned within scientific circles, Ernst is one of the most popular princes within the German ...
Frederick was the second son of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar (1562–1602) from his second marriage to Anna Maria (1575–1643), daughter of Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg. After the death of his father Frederick inherited the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg jointly with his brothers Johann Philipp , Johann Wilhelm and Friedrich Wilhelm II .
When Herzog Johann Philipp von Sachsen-Altenburg was born on 25 January 1597, in Torgau, Kreis Torgau-Oschatz, Saxony, Germany, his father, Friedrich Wilhelm l. Plalatinate-Zwiebruken-Neuburg von Sachen-Weimar (geb. Wettin, Ernestiner), Herzog zu Sachsen-Weimar, was 34 and his mother, Anna Maria von Pfalz-Zweibrücken, was 21.
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg remained one of the mightiest Ernestine duchies under the rule of Duke Frederick III from 1732. He had the palaces and gardens in Gotha rebuilt in a lavish Baroque style and supported the religious refugees of the Moravian Church in Neudietendorf. His sister Augusta married Prince Frederick of Wales in 1736, their first ...
Upon his death in 1602 Saxe-Weimar was again divided among his younger brother John II and Frederick William's minor son John Philipp, who received the territory of Saxe-Altenburg. John's son Duke Johann Ernst I of Saxe-Weimar on occasion of the burial of his mother Dorothea Maria of Anhalt in 1617 established the literary Fruitbearing Society.
