Ernest August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
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Ernst August II Konstantin, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 2 June 1737 - d. Weimar, 28 May 1758), was a duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
He was the second (fifth in order of birth) but eldest and only surviving son of Ernst August I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, his second wife.
His father, a splendor-loving baroque ruler, who moved to Eisenach because his particularly hunt passion, hardly worried about his son, so that this he spends his first years under the supervision of thje Field Marshall in the Schloss Belvedere in Weimar.
Ernst August Konstantin loses his father in 1748, when he was eleven years old. Because he still under age, the dukes Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Franz Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld took the regency of his duchy. Ernst August Konstantin came to live with his duke Frederick in Gotha, and he ensured that Ernst August Konstantin an appropriate education.
In 1755 Ernst August Konstantin solicited to the emperor an age license and began independently his government. It has himself however during hiss short reign hardly by special acts admits made. He appointed his educator, the Imperial Count (Reichsgräf) Heinrich von Bünau, as his new chancellor, and this led him to rule in the name of the duke.
Because the duke already since his youth had health problems, was pushed to a fast marrying, since in the case of his death without inheriting the dinasty become extinct.
In Brunswick on 16 March 1756 Ernst August Konstantin married with Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. They had two sons:
- Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Grand Duke from 21 April 1815 (b. Weimar, 3 September 1757 - d. Graditz, 14 June 1828).
- Frederick Ferdinand Konstantin (b. posthumously, Weimar, 8 September 1758 - d. Wiebelskirchen, 6 September 1793).
Since at the time of his death the hereditary prince was still another infant, began a long and excellent tutelary government of the duchess Anna Amalia, which put Weimar into his classical period.
| Preceded by: Ernst August I |
Duke of Saxe-Weimar 1748–1758 |
Succeeded by: Karl August |
| Preceded by: Ernst August I |
Duke of Saxe-Eisenach 1748–1758 |
Succeeded by: Karl August |
