Alternative History

This is a list of rulers of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), originally founded as a duchy around the year 631. Thuringia was elevated to electorate status in 1479. The first duke to be confirmed as Elector of Thuringia was the Thin White Duke, who ruled from 1460 to 1522 and was the progenitor of the House of Jenagotha. After 1534 the Dukes of Thuringia were also the head of the Thuringian Province within the Rätian Union.

Dukes of Thuringia[]

House of Jena[]

Picture Name Reign Marriages Claim CoA
No portrait Henry II
(1425-1460)


4 April 1460
(56 years, 20 days)
Unknown Unknown Thuringia Basic COA Morte

House of Jenagotha[]

After the death of Henry II without issue, the throne of Thuringia passed to his younger brother, who later became the Thin White Duke. He adopted the name "House of Jenagotha", combining his styling as the Gotha-branch to his brother's House of Jena.

Picture Name Reign Marriages Claim CoA
TWD Thin White Duke
(1430-1522)
4 April 1460

6 June 1522
(56 years, 20 days)

(1) Drusilla of Thuringia
(2) Maria of Sommerschenburg
(3) Constance
(4) Anne
(5) Johanna
(6) Wilhelmine Přemysl
(7) Christina de la Marck
(8) Blanche de la Marck
(9) Ida von Lenzburg
(10) Ida von Lenzburg
(11) Maria of Brnadenburg
(12) Elisabeth
(13) Elisabeth of Nuremberg
(14) Matilda of Meissen

Primogeniture

Brother of Henry II

TWD COA Morte
Portretten van Sir Thomas Gresham en Anne Fernely Rijksmuseum SK-A-3118 Hugh
the Heir
(1477-1534)
6 June 1522

9 March 1534
(56 years, 20 days)

(1) Mary von Wittelsbach
(2) Margaret of Ansbach
(3) Sabina Waldstromer
(4) Sabrina von Hersbruck
(5) Catherine of the Palatinate

Agnatic Primogeniture

Son of the
Thin White Duke

Hugh the Heir COA Morte
Mor-antonis-self-portrait Gedeon I
(1500-1569)
9 March 1534

14 March 1569
(56 years, 20 days)

(1) Philippina of Meissen
(2) Seffora of Anhalt
(3) Aloisia von Battenberg
(4) Margaret of Wolfenbüttel
(5) Naamah of Brandenburg

Primogeniture

Son of the
Hugh the Heir

Gedeon I COA Morte
Anthonis Mor Portrait of Steven van Herwijck Issachar I
(1520-1572)
14 March 1569

16 July 1572
(56 years, 20 days)

(1) Agnes Edmundina de la Marck
(2) Rachel von Jenagotha

Primogeniture

Son of the
Gedeon I

Issachar I COA Morte
55 4 1 Gedeon II
(1543-)
16 July 1572


(56 years, 20 days)

(1) Louise of Luxembourg
(2) Elisabeth von Ortenburg

Primogeniture

Son of the
Issachar I

Gedeon II COA Morte1

Footnotes[]

This article is part of Merveilles des Morte.