Saxe-Ernestine House Order was the joint State Order of the Thuringian duchies Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen.The Foundation comes to the Order of German honesty back of 1690 in memory of the Duke Ernst the Pious (* 1601, † 1675), was donated by the Duke of Altenburg.. RR