Noble family House of Reuss | Name Heinrich Count | |
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Spouse(s) Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen Father Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf Mother Erdmuthe Benigna of Solms-Laubach Born 21 July 1699
Ebersdorf ( 1699-07-21 ) Died May 22, 1747, Herrnhaag, Germany Parents Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf Children Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf Grandchildren Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf Grandparents Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein Great-grandparents Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera | ||
Heinrich XXIX Reuss, 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
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Life
Heinrich was the son of Count Heinrich X Reuss of Ebersdorf and his wife Erdmuthe Benigna of Solms-Laubach. They raised Heinrich strictly according to the guidelines of the Pietism. Heinrich soon befriended Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf. He married on 7 September 1721 in Castell with Sophie Theodora (1703–1777), daughter of Count Dietrich Wolfgang of Castell-Remlingen and Countess Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf (1669-1743). At Heinrich's wedding, Count Nicholas Ludwig met Heinrich's sister, Erdmuthe Dorothea. They married exactly one year later.
Under Count Heinrich XXIX, a Moravian Church was founded in Ebersdorf, after the model of the church von Zinzendorf had founded in Upper Lusatia at Herrnhut. Because class differences were largely eliminated in this church, the whole village met in the ballroom of the palace to pray and sing hymns. The Count and his servants were to treat each other as "brothers" while in church.
Issue
Count Heinrich XXIX and Countess Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen had thirteen children: