Ernest Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen Biography

Ernest Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (Gotha 12 June 1655 – Hildburghausen 17 October 1715) was a duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.He was the ninth but sixth surviving son of Ernest I Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg.When his father died in 1675 Ernest and his six brothers jointly assumed the government of the duchy; five years later in 1680 and under the treaty of division of the family lands he received the towns of Hildburghausen Eisfeld Heldburg Königsberg.