Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Friedrich Wilhelm
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Reign	1743–1746
Predecessor	Karl Frederick
Successor	Anthony Ulrich
Born	16 February 1679 Ichtershausen
Died	10 March 1746 (aged 67) Meiningen
House	Saxe-Meiningen
Father	Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Mother	Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt
Religion	Lutheranism

Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (Ichtershausen, 16 February 1679 – Meiningen, 10 March 1746), was a duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

Life

He was the fifth son of Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his first wife, Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt.

When his father died in 1706, according to his will, he inherited the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen with his older full-brother, Ernst Ludwig I, and his younger half-brother, Anton Ulrich.

But, shortly after, Ernst Ludwig signed a contract between himself and his brothers, and they were compelled to leave full control of the duchy in his hands.

When Ernst Ludwig died (1724), Friedrich Wilhelm and Anton Ulrich took again the government of the duchy as guardians of his nephews until 1733.

After the death of his nephew, Karl Frederick (1743), he inherited the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.

Friedrich Wilhelm never married and died after only three years of reigning. He was succeeded by his younger half-brother, Anton Ulrich.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

16. John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar               8. John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar                       17. Dorothea Susanne of Simmern               4. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha                             18. Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt               9. Dorothea Maria of Anhalt                       19. Eleonore of Württemberg               2. Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen                                   20. Frederick William I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar               10. John Philip, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg                       21. Anna Maria of the Palatinate-Neuburg               5. Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg                             22. Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel               11. Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel                       23. Elizabeth of Denmark               1. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen                                         24. George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt               12. Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt                       25. Magdalene of Lippe               6. George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt                             26. John George, Elector of Brandenburg               13. Magdalena von Brandenburg                       27. Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst               3. Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt                                   28. Christian I, Elector of Saxony               14. John George I, Elector of Saxony                       29. Sophie of Brandenburg               7. Sophia Eleonore of Saxony                             30. Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia               15. Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia                       31. Marie Eleonore of Cleves

References

• Hannelore Schneider: Das Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen unter seinen ersten Herzögen. In: Verona Gerasch (Red.): Beiträge zum Kolloquium: 300 Jahre Schloss Elisabethenburg (= Südthüringer Forschungen. Bd. 27, ISSN 0585-8720). Staatliche Museen, Meiningen 1994, S. 12–19.
• Ludwig Hertel: Meiningische Geschichte von 1680 bis zur Gegenwart (= Schriften des Vereins für Sachsen-Meiningische Geschichte und Landeskunde. Heft 47, ZDB-ID 513329-4 = Neue Landeskunde des Herzogtums Sachsen-Meiningen. Heft 10). Gadow & Sohn, Hildburghausen 1904, Digitalisat.