Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf

Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf
Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf
	Thaler from 1766, depicting Heinrich XXIV
Born	22 January 1724; Ebersdorf
Died	13 May 1779 (aged 55); Ebersdorf
Noble family	Reuss
Spouse(s)	Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg
Father	Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
Mother	Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen

Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf (22 January 1724, in Ebersdorf – 13 May 1779, in Ebersdorf), was ruler of the German county Reuss-Ebersdorf from 1747 till his death.

He was the eldest son of the thirteen children of Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf and Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen. He was the grandfather of King Leopold I of Belgium and the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria (through his daughter Augusta).

Heinrich XXIV succeeded his father as Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf in 1747.

Family

In Thurnau on 28 June 1754 Heinrich XXIV married Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg. They had seven children:

Heinrich XLVI (b. Ebersdorf, 14 May 1755 — d. Ebersodrf, 18 April 1757).
Augusta (b. Ebersdorf, 9 January 1757 — d. Coburg, 16 November 1831), Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Prinzessin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806; married on 13 June 1777 to Duke Franz of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Luise (b. Ebersdorf, 2 June 1759 — d. Lobenstein, 5 December 1840), Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Prinzessin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806; married on 1 June 1781 to Prince Heinrich XLIII of Reuss-Köstritz.
Heinrich LI (b. Ebersdorf, 16 May 1761 — d. Ebersdorf, 10 July 1822), became Prince of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürst Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806.
Ernestine Ferdinande (b. Ebersdorf, 28 April 1762 — d. Ebersdorf, 19 May 1763).
Heinrich LIII (b. Ebersdorf, 24 May 1765 — d. Ebersdorf, 28 June 1770).
Henriette (b. Ebersdorf, 9 May 1767 — d. Coburg, 3 September 1801), married on 4 July 1787 to Prince Karl of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf

16. Heinrich XXIX, Count Reuss of Plauen

8. Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein

17. Magdalene of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

4. Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf

18. Heinrich IV, Count Reuss of Obergreiz

9. Marie Sibylle of Reuss-Obergreiz

19. Elisabeth Juliane of Dhaun-Neufviller

2. Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf

20. Johann Georg II, Count of Solms-Baruth

10. Johann Friedrich, Count of Solms-Baruth

21. Anna Maria of Erbach-Fürstenau

5. Erdmuthe Benigna of Solms-Laubach

22. Siegmund Seyfried, Count of Promnitz-Pless

11. Benigna of Promnitz

23. Katharina Elisabeth of Schönburg-Lichtenstein

1. Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf

24. Wolfgang II, Count of Castell-Remlingen

12. Wolfgang Georg I of Castell-Remlingen

25. Juliana of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim

6. Wolfgang, Count of Castell-Castell

26. Ludwig Eberhard, Count of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Pfedelbach and Gleichen

13. Sophia Juliana of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg

27. Dorothea of Erbach

3. Sofie Theodora of Castell-Castell

28. Otto Heinrich von Zinzendorf-Pottendorf

14. Maximilian Erasmus, Count of Zinzendorf-Pottendorf

29. Anna Apollonia of Zelking

7. Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf-Pottendorf

30. Christian, Count of Dietrichstein-Hollenburg

15. Anna Amalia of Dietrichstein

31. Maria Elisabeth of Aichelberg

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References

Thomas Gehrlein: "Das Haus Reuss: Älterer und Jüngerer Linie", booklet, August 2006

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