Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf

Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (b. Ebersdorf, 22 January 1724 – d. Ebersdorf, 13 May 1779), was a German prince of the House of Reuss-Ebersdorf.

He was the eldest son of the thirteen children of Heinrich XXIX Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf and Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen.

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

Ancestry

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1= 1. Heinrich XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
2= 2. Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
3= 3. Sofie Theodora of Castell-Castell
4= 4. Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
5= 5. Erdmuthe Benigna of Solms-Laubach
6= 6. Wolfgang, Count of Castell-Castell
7= 7. Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf-Pottendorf
8= 8. Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein
9= 9. Marie Sibylle of Reuss-Obergreiz
10= 10. Johann Friedrich, Count of Solms-Baruth
11= 11. Benigna of Promnitz
12= 12. Wolfgang Georg I of Castell-Remlingen
13= 13. Sophia Juliana of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg
14= 14. Maximilian Erasmus, Count of Zinzendorf-Pottendorf
15= 15. Anna Amalia of Dietrichstein
16= 16. Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Plauen
17= 17. Magdalene of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
18= 18. Heinrich IV, Count of Reuss-Obergreiz
19= 19. Elisabeth Juliane of Dhaun-Neufviller
20= 20. Johann Georg II, Count of Solms-Baruth
21= 21. Anna Maria of Erbach-Fürstenau
22= 22. Siegmund Seyfried, Count of Promnitz-Pless
23= 23. Katharina Elisabeth of Schönburg-Lichtenstein
24= 24. Wolfgang II, Count of Castell-Remlingen
25= 25. Juliana of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim
26= 26. Ludwig Eberhard, Count of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Pfedelbach and Gleichen
27= 27. Dorothea of Erbach
28= 28. Otto Heinrich von Zinzendorf-Pottendorf
29= 29. Anna Apollonia of Zelking
30= 30. Christian, Count of Dietrichstein-Hollenburg
31= 31. Maria Elisabeth of Aichelberg

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), crowned 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.
#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.
#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.
#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.