Background
Henry was the youngest son of Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein (1621-1671), Lord of Lobenstein, Hirschberg and Ebersdorf and his wife Marie Sibylle of Reuss-Obergreiz.
Henry was the youngest son of Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein (1621-1671), Lord of Lobenstein, Hirschberg and Ebersdorf and his wife Marie Sibylle of Reuss-Obergreiz.
He was Count of Lobenstein, and from 1678, Count of Ebersdorf. When the county was divided in 1678, Henry X was assigend as his resident the village of Ebersdorf, which was unusual, since it was a village. When his castle was ready, Henry X finally married, on 29 November 1694, in Laubach with Erdmuthe Benigna (1670-1732), daughter of Count John Frederick of Solms-Laubach.
Both spouses were seen as extremely pious.
Count Henry X had the following children:
Benigna Marie (1695-1751)
Friederike Wilhelmine (1696-1698)
Charlotte Louise (1698-1698)
Heinrich XXIX (1699-1747), Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, married in 1721 Countess Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen (1703-1777)
Erdmuthe Dorothea (1700-1756), married in 1722 with Count Nicholas Ludwig of Zinzendorf (1700-1760)
Bibiane Henriette (1702-1745), married in 1741 with Baron George Adolph Marschall of Bieberstein
Sophie Albertine Dorothea (1703-1708)
Ernestine Eleanor (1706-1766).