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	(1679-02-16)16 February 1679 Ichtershausen
Died	10 March 1746(1746-03-10) (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

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.