Background
Heinrich was the son of Count Heinrich X Reuss of Ebersdorf and his wife Erdmuthe Benigna of Solms-Laubach.
Heinrich was the son of Count Heinrich X Reuss of Ebersdorf and his wife Erdmuthe Benigna of Solms-Laubach.
Heinrich soon befriended Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf. At Heinrich"s wedding, Count Nicholas Ludwig met Heinrich"s sister, Erdmuthe Dorothea. 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.
Count Heinrich XXIX and Countess Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen had thirteen children:
Renate Benigna (1722–1747)
Heinrich XXIV (1724–1779), Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
Heinrich XXVI (1725–1796)
Heinrich XXVIII (30 August 1726 — 10 May 1797), married Agnes Sophie (1720–1791), daughter of Erdmann II of Promnitz
Sophie Auguste (1728–1753), married 1748, Baron Ludwig von Weitelfshausen
Charlotte Louise (1729–1792)
Heinrich XXXI (1731–1763)
Heinrich XXXII (born: 1733, killed in the Battle of Lobositz on 1 October 1756)
Heinrich XXXIII (1734–1791)
Heinrich XXXIV (1737–1806)
Christiane Eleonore (1739–1761)
Mary Elizabeth (1740–1784), married in 1765 Heinrich XXV, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein
Johanna Dorothea (1743–1801) married in 1770 Christoph Friedrich Levin von Trotha.