List of rulers of Thuringia

This is a list of the rulers of Thuringia, a historical and political region of Central Germany.

Kings of Thuringia[]

• 450–500 Bisinus
• 500–530 Baderich
• 500–530 Berthachar
• 500–531 Herminafried

Conquered by the Franks.

Frankish dukes of Thuringia[]

Merovingian dukes

• 632-642 Radulf I, "King of Thuringia" after 641
• 642-687
• 687-689
• 689-719 Heden II, son

Carolingian dukes

• 849-873 Thachulf, Margrave of the Sorbian March
• 874-880 Radulf II, son
• 880-892 Poppo, House of Babenberg, dux Thuringorum in 892, deposed
  • 882-886 Egino, brother
• 892-906 Conrad, ancestor of the Conradiner dynasty
• 907-908 Burchard, last duke, killed in battle against the Hungarians

Ruled by the Margraves of Meissen

• 1000-1002 Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen since 985, assassinated
• 1002-1003 William II, Count of Weimar
• 1046-1062 William IV, grandson, Margrave of Meissen
• 1062-1067 Otto, brother, Margrave of Meissen
• 1067-1090 Egbert II, son-in-law, Count of Brunswick from the Brunonen dynasty, killed in 1090, line extinct

Landgraves of Thuringia[]

Winzenburger[]

• 1111/1112-1130 Herman I, Count of Winzenburg (deposed in 1130; died in 1138)

Ludovingians[]

• 1031-1056
• 1056-1123 Louis the Springer
• 1123-1140 Louis I (first Landgrave from 1131)
• 1140-1172 Louis II the Iron
• 1172-1190 Louis III the Pious
• 1190-1217 Hermann I the Hard
• 1217-1227 Louis IV the Holy
• 1227-1241 Hermann II
• 1241-1242 Henry Raspe

Coat of arms of Landgrave Albert, 1265

House of Wettin[]

The Ludovingian coat of arms, shown as the coat of arms of the landgraves of both Hesse and Thüringen in the Ingeram Codex of 1459.

• 1242-1265 Henry the Illustrious, Margrave of Meissen and Lusatia since 1221
• 1265-1294 Albert the Degenerate, son, Margrave of Meissen from 1288 until 1292, sold Thuringia to
• 1294-1298 Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of Germany (not Wettin)
• 1298-1307 Albert of Habsburg, King of Germany (not Wettin)
• 1298-1307 Theodoric IV, Margrave of Lusatia from 1291 until 1303
• 1298-1323 Frederick I
• 1323-1349 Frederick II
• 1349-1381 Frederick III
• 1349-1382 William I
• 1349-1406 Balthasar
• 1406-1440 Frederick IV
• 1440-1445 Frederick V
• 1445-1482 William II
• 1482-1485 Albert
• 1482-1486 Ernest
• 1486-1525 Frederick VI
• 1525-1532 John
• 1532-1547 John Frederick I
• 1542-1553 John Ernest
• 1554-1566 John Frederick II
• 1554-1572 John William