Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia

Balthasar von Wettin (* December 21 1336 in White Rock, † May 18, 1406 at the Wartburg in Eisenach ) was Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia from the House of Wettin.

Life

Balthasar was born as the second son of Frederick the Serious († 1349 ). After his father's death, he was at first under the guardianship of his elder brother Frederick the austerities, but then ruled together and take turns with this and his younger brother William.

After the death of Frederick the rigors occurred on November 13, 1382 between the brothers and Wilhelm Balthasar and her nephew Frederick the Warlike, William the rich and George to the so-called Chemnitz division in which Balthasar received the Landgraviate Thuringia. He leased the mints Weimar and Langensalza ( Salza ) for penny embossing on these towns and left in 1391 to build the Thuringian mint Sangerhausen. The Meissen groschen of the new mint were the first outside the Landesmünzstätte Freiberg beaten dime.

In his first marriage Balthasar was with Margaret, the daughter of Viscount Albert of Nuremberg and married after her death to his second wife Anna of Saxony since the spring of 1374. In the government of Thuringia his son Landgrave Friedrich followed the peaceable things of the first marriage.