Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (german: Heinrich XI Fürst Reuß zu Greiz; 18 March 172228 June 1800) was the first Prince
Reuss of Greiz from 1778 to 1800.
Early life
Heinrich XI was born at
Greiz,
Reuss Reuss may refer to:
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, youngest child of Count Heinrich II
Reuss-Obergreiz (1696–1722), (son of Heinrich VI, Count Reuss-Greiz and Baroness Henriette Amalie von
Friesen
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* Communes of the Haut-Rhin département
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The ...
) and his wife, Countess Sophie Charlotte von
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(1697–1748), (daughter of
Count Hans Kaspar von Bothmer and Gisela Erdmuth von
Hoym).
Succession to Obergreiz and Untergreiz
Heinrich succeeded his brother Henry IX as Count of Reuss-Obergreiz 17 March 1723. After the death of Count Henry III Reuss-Untergreiz, in 1768, including the city of Untergreiz passed to the domains of the Heinrich XI and he was able to gather these possessions and guaranteed the line of succession.
Prince Reuss of Greiz
On 12 May 1778 Heinrich was elevated to
Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (german:
Fürst
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) by the
Holy Roman Emperor
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Joseph II. He received the
Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary as well.
First marriage and issue
Heinrich XI married on 4 April 1743 in
Köstritz to Countess Conradine Reuss-Köstritz (1719–1770), youngest daughter of
Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Köstritz
Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Köstritz (26 July 1681 in Schleiz — 24 July 1748 in Greiz) was Count Reuss of Köstritz from 1692 to his death. He was the founder of the Reuss-Köstritz line of the House of Reuss.
Marriage and issues
On 6 Ma ...
, and his wife, Baroness Marie Eleonore Emma von
Promnitz-Dittersbach.
They had eleven children:
*Count Heinrich XII of Reuss-Greiz (25 April 1744 – 30 December 1745)
*Countess Amalie of Reuss-Greiz (25 October 1745 – 3 October 1748)
*
Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss-Greiz (16 February 1747 – 29 January 1817), married in 1786 to
Princess Wilhelmine Louise of Nassau-Weilburg, had issue.
*Princess Friederike of Reuss-Greiz (9 July 1748 – 14 June 1816), married firstly in 1767 to Friedrich Ludwig, Count of
Castell-Rüdenhausen
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, no issue, divorced in 1769; Married secondly in 1770 to
Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg
Friedrich William, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg was born in Kirchberg, Hohenlohe, (now part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany) on 2 December 1732. He was a member of an old comital and, subsequently, princely (''Fürstlich'') family of Hohen ...
, no issue.
*Prince Heinrich XIV of Reuss-Greiz (6 November 1749 – 12 February 1799), married
morganatically
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in 1797 to Marie Anne
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, no issue.
*
Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Greiz (22 February 1751 – 30 August 1825)
*Princess Isabelle Auguste of Reuss-Greiz (7 August 1752 – 10 October 1824), married in 1771 to Burgrave Wilhelm Georg of
Kirchberg-Hachenburg, had issue.
*Countess Marie of Reuss-Greiz (1 November 1754 – 28 September 1759)
*Princess Viktoria of Reuss-Greiz (20 January 1756 – 2 December 1819), married in 1783 to Wolfgang Ernst II, Prince of
Isenburg und Büdingen zu Birstein, no issue.
*Count Heinrich XVI of Reuss-Greiz (30 August 1759 – 13 December 1763)
*Prince Heinrich XVII of Reuss-Greiz (25 May 1761 – 27 February 1807), married morganatically in 1805 to Babette von Wenz, issue: Isabelle von Wenz zum Lahnstein (1806-1886).
Second marriage
Heinrich married secondly on 25 October 1770 in
Frankfurt am Main
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to Countess Alexandrine of
Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim (1732–1809), second daughter of Christian Karl Reinhard, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim, and his wife, Countess Catharine Polyxene of
Solms-Rödelheim und Assenheim; they had no issue.
Ancestry
Notes and sources
*Ancestors of Queen Juliana, Jaarboek Centraal Bureau Genealogie, Den Haag, Reference: 246
*L'Allemagne dynastique, Huberty, Giraud, Magdelaine, Reference: 309
*Les 256 quartiers genealogiques de Jacques Henri VI, chef de la maison de France, 1980., Vollet, Charles, Reference: 174
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1722 births
1800 deaths
People from Greiz (district)
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Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary