Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf

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

Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf (Ebersdorf, 22 January 1724 — Ebersdorf, 13 May 1779), 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:

1. Heinrich XLVI (b. Ebersdorf, 14 May 1755 — d. Ebersodrf, 18 April 1757).
2. Augusta (b. Ebersdorf, 9 January 1757 — d. Coburg, 16 November 1831), Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürstin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806; married on 13 June 1777 to Duke Franz of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
3. Luise (b. Ebersdorf, 2 June 1759 — d. Lobenstein, 5 December 1840), crowned Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürstin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806; married on 1 June 1781 to Prince Heinrich XLIII of Reuss-Köstritz.
4. Heinrich LI (b. Ebersdorf, 16 May 1761 — d. Ebersdorf, 10 July 1822), crowned Prince of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürst Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806.
5. Ernestine Ferdinande (b. Ebersdorf, 28 April 1762 — d. Ebersdorf, 19 May 1763).
6. Heinrich LIII (b. Ebersdorf, 24 May 1765 — d. Ebersdorf, 28 June 1770).
7. 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

References

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