List of the rulers of Thuringia

Empire of the Thuringians

• around 500 bisinus
• 510–529 (?) Baderich of Thuringia
• 510-529 (?) Berthachar
• 510-534 Herminafried (murdered by the Franks)

conquered by the Franconian Empire

Franconian march dukes

Around 630 a Thuringian tribal duchy was founded against the Wends by the Frankish King Dagobert

• 634 – after 642 Radulf
• 642–687 Heden I.
• 687-689 Gosbert
• 689-717 Heden II.

repealed around 717 by the Franconian housekeepers

Franconian margraves

Around 788 a Thuringian mark ("ducatus Thoringiae cum marchis suis") against the Sorbs ( Sorbenmark ) is founded by Charlemagne :

• 849–873 Thakulf (873 "comes et dux Sorabici limitis")
• 874–880 Ratolf (probably from the family of the Franconian Babenbergs )
• 880–892 Poppo ("dux Thuringorum", deposed) (Franconian Babenberger )
• 892–892 Konrad ( Konradiner )
• 892–908 Burchard ("dux" and "marchio Thuringorum")

Thuringian margraves of the Mark Meissen

• 1000–1002 Ekkehard I. (Margrave of Merseburg, murdered in Pöhlde Monastery )
• 1002–1003 Wilhelm II of Weimar the Great
• 1046-1062 Wilhelm IV of Weimar , Count Palatine of Saxony
• 1062-1067 Otto I of Weimar-Orlamünde

see also: List of the Margraves of Meissen

Landgrave of Thuringia

Winzenburger

• 1111 / 1112–1130 Hermann I of Winzenburg (deposed)

Ludowinger

• 1031–1056 Ludwig the Bearded (Count of Schauenburg)
• 1056–1123 Ludwig the Springer (Count of Schauenburg)
• 1123–1140 Ludwig I (1st Landgrave, from 1131)
• 1140–1172 Ludwig II the Iron
• 1172–1190 Ludwig III. the pious one
• 1190–1217 Hermann I.
• 1217–1227 Louis IV the Saint
• 1227–1241 Hermann II.
• 1241-1247 Heinrich Raspe

Wettiner

• 1247–1265 Henry the Illustrious
• 1265–1294 Albrecht the Degenerate

House Nassau

• 1294–1298 Adolf von Nassau

Wettiner

• 1298-1307 Dietrich
• 1298–1323 Frederick I the Open
• 1323–1349 Frederick II the Serious
• 1349-1381 Friedrich III. the severity
• 1349–1382 Wilhelm I the one-eyed
• 1349–1406 Balthasar
• 1406–1440 Frederick IV the Peaceful
• 1440–1445 Frederick V the Meek
• 1445–1482 Wilhelm II the Brave
• 1482–1485 Albrecht the Courageous
• 1482–1486 Ernst

Wettin Ernestine line

• 1486–1525 Frederick VI. the wise
• 1525–1532 Johann the Steadfast
• 1532–1547 Johann Friedrich I the Magnanimous
• 1542–1553 Johann Ernst
• 1554–1566 Johann Friedrich II. The Middle
• 1554–1572 Johann Wilhelm

In 1572, the Ernestines began dividing inheritance. They remained the predominant aristocratic family in Thuringia, but they no longer governed a single state, but a large number of small duchies, the so-called Saxon duchies . The chairman of the Ernestines was always the Duke / Grand Duke of Weimar in the following centuries until the end of the monarchy in 1918 (as this was the oldest line of the Ernestines and thus of the House of Wettin), see Dukes of Saxony-Weimar .

See also

• Erfurt division
• Ernestine duchies
• Titulature and coat of arms (German Emperors after 1873)
• List of Thuringian knight families

literature

• Steffen Raßloff : History of Thuringia. Beck, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-406-60523-9 .
• Steffen Raßloff: Central German history. Saxony - Saxony-Anhalt - Thuringia. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-361-00717-8 .