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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1234509, member: 39&quot;]Just one comment regarding all these Heinrichs: In the Reuß families, the boys all got the name Heinrich and were &quot;numbered&quot;. Different family branches, so to say, had different ways of counting. (Reuß Jüngere Linie for example started with Heinrich I again at the beginning of each century.) These numbering systems included all male family members, not just the ruling count or prince - and that is why you end up with such high numbers. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The last prince (Heinrich LXXII), by the way, became famous mostly for two reasons. One, the dancer Lola Montez who had been invited to the court behaved so badly that she was thrown out of the country after some time. Also, during the 1848 revolution, Heinrich was faced with demands that included freedom of the press, parliamentary rights and independent jurisdiction. He partly agreed but apparently also lost interest in being a prince, so he abdicated ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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