Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf


Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, was a member of the House of Reuss. He was Count of Lobenstein, and from 1678, Count of Ebersdorf. He was the founder of Reuss-Ebersdorf line.

Life

Henry was the youngest son of Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein, Lord of Lobenstein, Hirschberg and Ebersdorf and his wife Marie Sibylle of Reuss-Obergreiz. His paternal grandfather was Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera. When the county was divided in 1678, Henry X was assigned as his residence the village of Ebersdorf, which was unusual, since it was a village. Before he married, he had the existing manor hose expanded to a modest castle between 1692 and 1694, and added a baroque garden.
When his castle was ready, Henry X finally married, on 29 November 1694, in Laubach with Erdmuthe Benigna, daughter of Count John Frederick of Solms-Laubach. Both spouses were seen as extremely pious. They were close friends of the Pietist-pedagogue August Hermann Francke from Halle, and later with the Count Nikolaus Ludwig of Zinzendorf, who would marry their daughter Erdmuthe Dorothea. Ebersdorf soon became a center of the Pietism in Thuringia.

Issue

Count Henry X had the following children: