Bernhard I of Saxe-Meiningen Duke of Saxe-Meiningen [40770] ²⁴

  General Notes:

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See Europäisch Stammtafeln Band I tafel 50 & NF I.1 T158 & T160.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 1680.

Bernhard married Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt [40771] [MRIN: 11627], daughter of George II of Hesse-Darmstadt Landgrave Hesse-Darmstadt [15642] and Sophie Eleanor Wettin [15643], on 20 Nov 1671 in Schloss Friedensten, Gotha, Sachsen, Germany. (Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt [40771] was born on 26 Nov 1647 in Giessen, died on 19 Apr 1680 in Ichtershausen, Marienburg and was buried in Schlosskirche.)

Bernhard next married Elizabeth Eleonor Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel [40842] [MRIN: 12422], daughter of Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duke of Brunswick [40843] and Unknown. (Elizabeth Eleonor Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel [40842] was born on 30 Sep 1658 in Wolfenbuttel, Niedersachsen, Germany, died on 15 Mar 1728/29 in Meiningen and was buried in Schlosskirche.)