List of rulers of Thuringia
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Thuringiais a historical and political region of CentralGermany.
Kings of Thuringia
[edit]- 500?–507Bisinus[1]
- 507–529Baderich[2]
- 507–525Berthachar[2]
- 507–532Herminafried[3]
- Conquered by theFranks.
Frankish dukes of Thuringia
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- Merovingian dukes
- Carolingian dukes
- 849–873Thachulf,Margrave of theSorbian March
- 874–880Radulf II,son
- 880–892Poppo,House of Babenberg,dux Thuringorumin 892, deposed
- 882–886Egino,brother
- 892–906Conrad,ancestor of theConradinerdynasty
- 907–908Burchard,last duke, killed in battle against theHungarians
- Ruled by the Margraves of Meissen
- 1000–1002Eckard I,Margrave ofMeissensince 985, assassinated
- 1002–1003William II,Count ofWeimar
- 1046–1062William IV,grandson, Margrave of Meissen
- 1062–1067Otto,brother, Margrave of Meissen
- 1067–1090Egbert II,son-in-law, Count ofBrunswickfrom theBrunonendynasty, killed in 1090, line extinct
Landgraves of Thuringia
[edit]Winzenburger
[edit]- 1111/1112–1130Herman I, Count of Winzenburg(deposed in 1130; died in 1138)
- 1031–1056Louis the Bearded
- 1056–1123Louis the Springer
- 1123–1140Louis I(first Landgrave from 1131)
- 1140–1172Louis II the Iron
- 1172–1190Louis III the Pious
- 1190–1217Hermann I the Hard
- 1217–1227Louis IV the Holy
- 1227–1241Hermann II
- 1241–1242Henry Raspe
- 1242–1265Henry the Illustrious,Margrave of Meissen andLusatiasince 1221
- 1265–1294Albert the Degenerate,son, Margrave of Meissen from 1288 until 1292, sold Thuringia to
- 1294–1298Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg,King of Germany(not Wettin)
- 1298–1307Albert of Habsburg,King of Germany (not Wettin)
- 1298–1307Theodoric IV,Margrave of Lusatia from 1291 until 1303
- 1298–1323Frederick I
- 1323–1349Frederick II
- 1349–1381Frederick III
- 1349–1382William I
- 1349–1406Balthasar
- 1406–1440Frederick IV
- 1440–1445Frederick V
- 1445–1482William II
- 1482–1485Albert
- 1482–1486Ernest
- 1486–1525Frederick VI
- 1525–1532John
- 1532–1547John Frederick I
- 1542–1553John Ernest
- 1554–1566John Frederick II
- 1554–1572John William
References
[edit]- ^Weddige, Hilkert (1989).Heldensage und Stammessage: Iring und der Untergang des Thüringerreiches in Historiographie und heroischer Dichtung.Max Niemeyer. p. 10.
- ^abDuruy, Victor (1918).A Short History of France.J. M. Dent. p. 86.
- ^Oman, Charles.The Dark Ages, 476-918,Rivingtons, 1908, p. 114
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- ^Reuter, Timothy.Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056.New York: Longman, 1991, 55