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Saxe-Zeitz

Territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1656–57

Field	Value
native_name	de
conventional_long_name	Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz
common_name	Saxe-Zeitz
era	Early modern Europe
status	Secundogeniture of Saxony
empire	Holy Roman Empire
government_type	Duchy
year_start	1657
year_end	1718
event_start	Established
event_end	Fell back to Saxony
p1	Electorate of Saxony
s1	Electorate of Saxony
image_flag
image_coat	Wappen Sachsen-Zeitz.PNG
coa_size	130px
symbol	Coat of arms of Saxony
image_map	Locator Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz (1680).svg
image_map_caption	Saxe-Zeitz territories within the Wettin lands,
about 1680
capital	Zeitz

about 1680

The Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz () was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1656–57 as a secundogeniture of the Electoral Saxon house of House of Wettin. Its capital was Zeitz. The territory fell back to the Wettin electoral line in 1718.

History

On 20 July 1652, the Saxon elector John George I stipulated in his will that, while the electoral dignity passes to his eldest son John George II, his three younger brothers should receive secundogeniture principalities upon his death. After the elector died on 8 October 1656, his sons concluded the "friend-brotherly main treaty" in the Saxon residence of Dresden on 22 April 1657 and a further treaty in 1663 delineating their territories and sovereign rights definitely. These treaties created three duchies:

Saxe-Zeitz,
Saxe-Weissenfels and
Saxe-Merseburg.

Prince Maurice, the fourth-oldest son received the districts of Zeitz, Naumburg and Haynsburg in the former Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz which in 1562 had been secularized in the course of the Protestant Reformation.

He also received the city of Schleusingen in 1660, which had once been the residence of the extinct Counts of Henneberg, together with the districts of Suhl and Kühndorf. Duke Maurice resided in the city castle at Naumburg until his new seat at Moritzburg Palace in Zeitz had been completed.

Rulers

The only rulers were Duke Maurice of Saxe-Zeitz and his son Duke Moritz Wilhelm of Saxe-Zeitz. This line was the first of the three Saxon secundogenitures to die out in 1718, when the only male heir, Prince Christian August, joined the clergy. Zeitz was merged into the Electorate of Saxony in accordance with the will of Elector Johann Georg I.

Relatives

Erdmuthe Dorothea of Saxe-Zeitz (1661–1720), consort of Duke Christian II of Saxe-Merseburg
Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz (1666–1725), Primate of Hungary and Cardinal
Frederick Henry, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (1668–1713)
Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691–1743), by marriage to William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

References

[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13497b.htm New Advent website, ''Saxony'']
[https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GermanySaxonsZeitz.htm History Files website, ''Saxe-Zeitz (Saxony): AD 1656 – 1718'']
[https://books.google.com/books?id=4_9eAAAAcAAJ&q=saxe+zeitz&pg=PA758 Google Books website, ''The Penny-Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27'', p758]

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