page_title: Ernestine duchies
section_title: Ernestine duchies
hierarchical_section_title: Ernestine duchies / Ernestine duchies
context_page_description: The Ernestine duchies, are sometimes called the Saxon duchies, were a changing number of small states in the present German state of Thuringia, governed by dukes of the Ernestine line of the house of Wettin. The Albertine duchies of Weissenfels, Merseburg and Zeitz were are also sometimes called "Saxon duchies" and border several Ernestine ones.
context_section_description: Saxe-Altenburg (1603 to 1672; 1826 to 1918)
  Saxe-Coburg (1596 to 1633; 1681 to 1699)
  Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach (1572 to 1596)
  Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1735 to 1826)
  Saxe-Eisenberg (1680 to 1707)
  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1826 to 1918)
  Saxe-Eisenach (1596 to 1638; 1640 to 1644; 1672 to 1806)
  Saxe-Gotha (1640 to 1680)
  Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1681 to 1826)
  Saxe-Hildburghausen (1680 to 1826)
  Saxe-Jena (1672 to 1690)
  Saxe-Marksuhl (1662 to 1672)
  Saxe-Meiningen (1681 to 1918)
  Saxe-Römhild (1680 to 1710)
  Saxe-Saalfeld (1680 to 1735)
  Saxe-Weimar (1572 to 1806)
  Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1806 to 1918)
caption: The Ernestine Duchies in Thuringia after 1825
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