George Ernest, Count of Erbach-Wildenstein


George Ernest, Count of Erbach-Wildenstein, was a German prince member of the House of Erbach and ruler over Wildenstein, Kleinheubach und Breuberg.
He was the third child and second of George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg and his first wife Magdalena, a daughter of Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg.

Life

After the death of his father in 1648, he ruled jointly with his half-brothers their domains until 1653, when he ceded Breuberg to George Frederick, but his early death allowed him to reunited this district to his government. Because his other three half-brothers are still minors, George Ernest continue to be sole ruler until his death.
In Fürstenau on 22 November 1656 George Ernest married with her step-aunt Charlotte Christiana, a daughter of George Frederick II, Count of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg in Schillingsfürst and his wife Dorothea Sophie of Solms-Hohensolms. They had no children.
George Ernest died in Kleinheubach aged 39. Because he died without issue, his domains where inherited by his surviving half-brothers, who ruled jointly until 1672, when they divided their lands between them.