Ernst Ludwig II

Ernst Ludwig II (Coburg, 8 August 1709 – Meiningen, 24 February 1729), was a duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

Ernest Louis II
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Reign	24 November 1724 - 24 February 1729
Predecessor	Ernest Louis I
Successor	Charles Frederick
Born	(1709-08-08)8 August 1709 Coburg
Died	24 February 1729(1729-02-24) (aged 19) Meiningen
House	Saxe-Meiningen
Father	Ernest Louis I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Mother	Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha
Religion	Lutheranism

He was the third but second surviving son of Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his first wife, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha.

The death of his older brother Josef Bernhard (22 March 1724) made him the heir to the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. When his father died seven months later (24 November 1724), Ernst Ludwig - fifteen years old- inherited the duchy along with his younger brother Karl Frederick.

Because the two princes were under age when their father died, their uncles Frederik Wilhelm and Anton Ulrich served as their guardians until 1733.

Ernst Ludwig died after reigning five years, only twenty years old and unmarried. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Karl Frederick.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Ernst Ludwig II

8. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha 4. Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen 9. Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg 2. Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen 10. George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt 5. Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt 11. Sophia Eleonore of Saxony 1. Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen 12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (=8) 6. Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg 13. Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg (=9) 3. Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha 14. August, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels 7. Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels 15. Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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.