Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf (22 January 1724, in Ebersdorf – 13 May 1779, in Ebersdorf), was ruler of the German county

Reuss-Ebersdorf Reuss-Ebersdorf was a county and from 1806 a principality located in Germany. The Counts of Reuss-Ebersdorf belonged to the Reuss Junior Line. Reuss was successively a part of the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, German Confederatio ...

from 1747 until his death in 1779. He was the eldest son of the thirteen children of

Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (born 21 July 1699 in Ebersdorf; died: 22 May 1747 in Herrnhaag) was a member of the House of Reuss Younger Line and Count Ebersdorf from 1711 until his death Life Heinrich was the son of Count Heinric ...

and Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen. He was the grandfather of King

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and the great-grandfather of

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(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

Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg, born 20 August 1727 (20 July, according to other sources) at Gedern, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, in the then Holy Roman Empire, was a daughter of George August, Count of Erbach-Schönberg, and Ferd ...

. 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

(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

References

* Thomas Gehrlein: "Das Haus Reuss: Älterer und Jüngerer Linie", booklet, August 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Heinrich 24, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf 1724 births 1779 deaths People from Saalburg-Ebersdorf House of Reuss German princes