Duchy of Saxe-Gotha
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Saxe-Gotha (German: Sachsen-Gotha) was a state in today's Thuringia, Germany.
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Duchy of Saxe-Gotha Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1553 – 1572 1640 – 1680 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital | Gotha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Split from Saxe-Thuringia | 1553 1553 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1572 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Split from Saxe-Weimar | 1640 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Partitioned in seven | 1680 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It was created in 1640 for Duke Ernest I and ended in 1680 when his lands were divided after his death in 1675. The area around Gotha passed to Ernest's eldest surviving son, Frederick of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who also inherited Altenburg (which Ernest had inherited through his wife Elisabeth Sophie) and became Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.