List of rulers of Thuringia
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Template:SHORTDESC: Thuringia is a historical and political region in central Germany.
Kings of Thuringia
[edit | edit source]- 500?–507 Bisinus[1]
- 507–529 Baderich[2]
- 507–525 Berthachar[2]
- 507–532 Herminafried[3]
- Conquered by the Franks.
Frankish dukes of Thuringia
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- Merovingian dukes
- 632–642 Radulf I, "King of Thuringia" after 641[4]
- 642–687 Heden I
- 687–689 Gozbert
- 689–719 Heden II, son
- Carolingian dukes
- 849–873 Thachulf, Margrave of the Sorbian March
- 874–880 Radulf II, son
- 880–892 Poppo, House of Babenberg, dux Thuringorum in 892, deposed
- 882–886 Egino, brother
- 892–906 Conrad, ancestor of the Conradiner dynasty
- 907–908 Burchard, last duke, killed in battle against the Hungarians
- Ruled by the Margraves of Meissen
- 1000–1002 Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen since 985, assassinated
- 1002–1003 William II, Count of Weimar
- 1046–1062 William IV, grandson, Margrave of Meissen
- 1062–1067 Otto, brother, Margrave of Meissen
- 1067–1090 Egbert II, son-in-law, Count of Brunswick from the Brunonen dynasty, killed in 1090, line extinct
Landgraves of Thuringia
[edit | edit source]Winzenburger
[edit | edit source]- 1111/1112–1130 Herman I, Count of Winzenburg (deposed in 1130; died in 1138)
- 1031–1056 Louis the Bearded
- 1056–1123 Louis the Springer
- 1123–1140 Louis I (first Landgrave from 1131)
- 1140–1172 Louis II the Iron
- 1172–1190 Louis III the Pious
- 1190–1217 Hermann I the Hard
- 1217–1227 Louis IV the Holy
- 1227–1241 Hermann II
- 1241–1242 Henry Raspe
- 1242–1264 Sophia (in Hesse only)
- 1242–1265 Henry the Illustrious, Margrave of Meissen and Lusatia since 1221
- 1265–1294 Albert the Degenerate, son, Margrave of Meissen from 1288 until 1292, sold Thuringia to
- 1294–1298 Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of Germany (not Wettin)
- 1298–1307 Albert of Habsburg, King of Germany (not Wettin)
- 1298–1307 Theodoric IV, Margrave of Lusatia from 1291 until 1303
- 1298–1323 Frederick I
- 1323–1349 Frederick II
- 1349–1381 Frederick III
- 1349–1382 William I
- 1349–1406 Balthasar
- 1406–1440 Frederick IV
- 1440–1445 Frederick V
- 1445–1482 William II
- 1482–1485 Albert
- 1482–1486 Ernest
- 1486–1525 Frederick VI (aka. Frederick III, Prince-Elector Saxony or ‘Frederick the Wise’)
- 1525–1532 John
- 1532–1547 John Frederick I
- 1542–1553 John Ernest
- 1554–1566 John Frederick II
- 1554–1572 John William
References
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- ^ Oman, Charles. The Dark Ages, 476-918, Rivingtons, 1908, p. 114Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991, 55
