| Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf | |
|---|---|
| Noble family | House of Reuss |
| Father | Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein |
| Mother | Marie Sibylle of Reuss-Obergreiz |
| Born | 29 November 1662 Bad Lobenstein |
| Died | 10 June 1711 (aged 48) Ebersdorf |
Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (born: 29 November 1662 in Bad Lobenstein; died: 10 June 1711 in Ebersdorf, was a member of the House of Reuss (younger line). He was Count of Lobenstein, and from 1678, Count of Enersdorf. He was the founder of Reuss-Ebersdorf line.
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. His paternal grandfather was Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera. 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. 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 (1670-1732), 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.
Count Henry X had the following children: