Ernst Ludwig II
Ernst Ludwig II was a duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
Life
He was the third but second surviving son of Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his first wife, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha.The death of his older brother Josef Bernhard made him the heir to the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. When his father died seven months later, Ernst Ludwig -15 years old- inherited the duchy along with his younger brother Karl Frederick.
Because the two princes were under age when their father died, their uncles Frederik Wilhelm and Anton Ulrich served as their guardians until 1733.