Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach

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Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (10 November 1691 – 26 July 1741), was a duke of Saxe-Eisenach.^[1]

He was born in

Wilhelm Heinrich first married Albertine Juliane of Nassau-Idstein (daughter George August, Count of Nassau-Idstein) in Idstein on 15 February 1713. This marriage was childless. He married his second wife Anna Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt in Berlin on 3 June 1723, just eight months after the death of Albertine Juliane. The second marriage was also childless.

From 1730 to 1741, Johann Adam Birkenstock served the director of music and the leader of the court orchestra, a position referred to as the Kapellmeister. However the court Kapelle (chapel choir) was disbanded after Wilhelm Heinrich's death in 1741.^[2]

Wilhelm Heinrich acceded to the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach in 1729 upon the death of his father and was succeeded by his second cousin, duke

Wilhelm Heinrich was married twice. In his first marriage he married Albertine Juliane von Nassau-Idstein in 1713. In his second marriage he married Anna Sophie Charlotte von Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1723. Both marriages remained childless.

Literature

• Siegrid Westphal: A prince is looking for his fortune – the class lottery under Wilhelm Heinrich von Sachsen-Eisenach (1691–1741) . In: Annette C. Cremer, Alexander Jendorff (eds.): Decorum and mammon in conflict? Aristocratic economic activity between class profiles, striving for profit and economic necessity (interdisciplinary courtly culture - writings and materials of the Rudolstadt working group on residence culture, vol. 4), Heidelberg University Publishing: Heidelberg 2022, ISBN 978-3-96822-069-7, p. 365-378.

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