Heinrich XXIX. (Reuss-Ebersdorf)

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Count Heinrich XXIX. Reuss to Ebersdorf

Heinrich XXIX. Reuss (younger line) (* July 21, 1699 in Ebersdorf ; † May 22, 1747 in Herrnhaag ) was Count Reuss zu Ebersdorf . He is the great-great-grandfather of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II.

Life

Heinrich was the son of Count Heinrich X. Reuss zu Ebersdorf and his wife Erdmuthe Benigna zu Solms-Laubach. In 1716 he was sent to study in Halle , the center of Pietism under August Hermann Francke . In 1719 he met Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf for the first time , with whom he had a close friendship ever since.

In 1720 Heinrich XXIX began. the regency in Ebersdorf . He hired Heinrich Schubert as court preacher. Under this a pietistic community was formed. Zinzendorf was deeply impressed by her piety and was inspired by her to form his Moravian Brethren . Heinrich XXIX. married on September 7, 1721 in Castell Sophie Theodora (1703–1777), daughter of Count Wolfgang Dietrich zu Castell-Remlingen and Countess Dorothea Renata von Zinzendorf. At this wedding, Zinzendorf and Heinrich's sister Erdmuthe Dorothea met, who married exactly one year later.

Heinrich later founded a community of the Moravian Brothers in Ebersdorf. Since differences in class were largely eliminated in this piety movement, the whole village met in the ballroom of the castle for common prayer and song. Count and servant should meet there as "brothers".

progeny

Count Heinrich XXIX. had the following thirteen children with Countess Sophie Theodora zu Castell-Remlingen:

  • Benigna Renate (born September 12, 1722 in Ebersdorf; † July 20, 1747 ibid.)
  • Heinrich XXIV. (* January 22, 1724 in Ebersdorf; † May 13, 1779 ibid.) ∞ Caroline Ernestine von Erbach-Schönberg (* August 20, 1737 in Gedern ; † April 22, 1796 in Ebersdorf)
  • Heinrich XXVI. (* January 24, 1725 in Ebersdorf; † April 28, 1796 ibid.)
  • Heinrich XXVIII. (August 30, 1726 in Ebersdorf; † May 10, 1797 in Herrnhut ) ⚭ Agnes Sophie von Promnitz (born May 14, 1727 in Sorau ; † August 2, 1791 in Herrnhut), daughter of Erdmann II. Von Promnitz
  • Sophie Auguste (* May 8, 1728 in Ebersdorf; † August 6, 1753 in Lindheim , born in Herrnhut), ⚭ 1748 Baron Ludwig Carl von Weitolshausen, called Schrautenbach (1724–1783)
  • Charlotte Luise (born September 23, 1729 in Ebersdorf; † March 2, 1792 in Herrnhut)
  • Heinrich XXXI. (* November 11, 1731 in Ebersdorf; † June 14, 1763 in Zeist )
  • Heinrich XXXII. (* March 16, 1733 in Ebersdorf; fallen near Lobositz on October 1, 1756)
  • Heinrich XXXIII. (* June 22, 1734 in Ebersdorf; † August 22, 1791 ibid.)
  • Heinrich XXXIV. (* July 11, 1737 in Ebersdorf; † April 2, 1806 in Würzburg )
  • Christiane Eleonore (born May 9, 1739 in Ebersdorf; † June 11, 1761 in Herrnhut)
  • Marie Elisabeth (born July 9, 1740 in Ebersdorf; † April 4, 1784 in Ebersdorf) ⚭ 1765 Count Heinrich XXV. Reuss zu Lobenstein (born March 14, 1724 in Selbitz ; † March 30, 1801 in Herrnhut)
  • Johanna Dorothea (born June 14, 1743 in Ebersdorf; † May 18, 1801 in Wanscha, born in Herrnhut) ⚭ 1770 Christoph Friedrich Levin von Trotha (born April 16, 1743; † March 25, 1772)

See also

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Reuss House: Older and Younger Line , (Brochure - August 2006)
  • Stephan Hirzel: The Count and the Brothers . Quell Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7918-4001-0
  • Erika Geiger: Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. The inventor of the Moravian Slogans. His life story . 2nd Edition. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2000, ISBN 3-7751-2839-5 (biography)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Theodor Müller: Zinzendorf as a renewer of the old Brethren Church. (1900). In: First anthology about Zinzendorf. Hermann Olms, Hildesheim / New York. 1975. pp. 1–124, here p. 17f.
  2. ↑ Martin Schneider: Philadelphian brothers with a Lutheran mouth and Moravian skirt. In: Martin Brecht, Paul Peucker (eds.): New aspects of Zinzendorf research. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006. pp. 11–36, here p. 19
  3. ^ Dietrich Meyer : Zinzendorf and the Moravian Brethren. 1700-2000. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-01390-8 . P. 16
  4. ^ Berthold Schmidt: The Reuss. Genealogy of the entire Reuss family older and younger line, as well as the extinct Vogtslinien zu Weida, Gera and Plauen and the Burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen. Schleiz 1903. Plate 19 No. 5
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich X. Count Reuss zu Ebersdorf
1711–1747 		Heinrich XXIV.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich XXIX.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich XXIX. Reuss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Reuss von Lobenstein zu Ebersdorf
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1747
Place of death Herrnhaag