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Johann Wilhelm retained only the smaller part of the duchy, the region around Weimar, but he added the districts of Altenburg, Gotha, and Meiningen to his territories. As a result of the Division of Erfurt, all of the territorial possessions of the House of Wettin, no matter which branch ruled the individual components, became contiguous.
Johann was the second son of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Dorothea Susanne of Simmern.. Johann Wilhelm died in 1573 when his son was only three years old. Since at the time Johann's older brother Frederick William I was also under age, the duchy of Saxe-Weimar (originally awarded to Johann) was governed by a regency.
Johann Ernst II immediately divided the enlarged Saxe-Weimar lands between himself and his younger brothers John George I and Bernhard II, who received the Duchies of Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Jena, which reverted to Saxe-Weimar upon the death of Bernhard's son Duke Johann Wilhelm in 1690.
Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1598–1662, had 7 sons; 1. William, 1626, died in infancy 2. Johann Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1627–1683, had 2 sons; A. William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1662–1728, died without issue B. Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1664–1707, had 4 sons; I. John William, 1686, died in infancy II.
When Johann Ernst died in 1626, Wilhelm assumed the title duke of Saxe-Weimar. One year later, Wilhelm was created a member of the Order of the Stability. During the years 1622–1623, he created a patriotic federation, the German Friedbund , for the promotion of the German states and religious liberties.
In Zerbst on 11 October 1685 Johann Ernst married firstly Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst. They had five children: Johann Wilhelm (b. Weimar, 4 June 1686 - d. Weimar, 14 October 1686). Ernst August I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. Weimar, 19 April 1688 - d. Eisenach, 19 January 1748), later inherited Eisenach and Jena. Eleonore Christiane (b.
William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar William Ernest was a strict Lutheran and commanded that only men who could read and comment on Lutheran theological writings be admitted to his armed forces. The composer Johann Sebastian Bach worked for the duke from 1708, first as organist, then as Konzertmeister (leader of the orchestra) in Weimar.
Friedrich Wilhelm I (25 April 1562 in Weimar – 7 July 1602 in Weimar) was a duke of Saxe-Weimar. He was the eldest son of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Dorothea Susanne of Simmern . Life