Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (German) | |||||||||||||
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1735–1826 | |||||||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire State of the Confederation of the Rhine State of the German Confederation | ||||||||||||
Capital | |||||||||||||
Government | Duchy | ||||||||||||
Duke | |||||||||||||
• 1735–1745 | Christian Ernest II (first) | ||||||||||||
• 1806–1826 | Ernest III (last) | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Early Modern | ||||||||||||
• Division of Erfurt | 1572 | ||||||||||||
6 August 1735 | |||||||||||||
• Renamed on Imperial decision of Ernestine succession | 1735 | ||||||||||||
11 February 1826 | |||||||||||||
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Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (German: Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld) was one of the Saxon Duchies held by the Ernestine line of the Wettin Dynasty. Established in 1699, the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield line lasted until the reshuffle of the Ernestine territories that occurred following the extinction of the Saxe-Gotha line in 1825,[1] in which the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld line received Gotha, but lost Saalfeld to Saxe-Meiningen.