Heinrich Ruzzo Prinz Reuss von Plauen

Heinrich Ruzzo
Heinrich Ruzzo
Prince Reuss of Plauen
	File:Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss (1950-1999).jpg
Born	24 May 1950; Lucerne, Switzerland
Died	29 October 1999 (aged 49); Stockholm, Sweden
Spouse	Mette Rinde; (1974⁠–⁠1986); Anni-Frid Lyngstad; (m. 1992; "his death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 1999)
Issue	Princess Henriette Reuss of Plauen ; Princess Pauline Reuss of Plauen
House	Reuss
Father	Heinrich Enzio Prinz Reuss, Count of Plauen
Mother	Baroness Louise Peyron

Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss of Plauen (Template:Lang-de; 24 May 1950 in Lucerne – 29 October 1999 in Stockholm), known as Prince Ruzzo Reuss for short, was a Swedish-Swiss landscape architect and a prince of the former sovereign House of Reuss, which ruled the principalities of Reuss (now in modern Germany) for almost 800 years. His family branch was the royal family of the Principality of Reuss-Gera until 1918. He was married to former ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who became Frida, Princess Reuss of Plauen, following the marriage.

Biography

Heinrich Ruzzo was the son of Heinrich Enzio Prinz Reuss, Count of Plauen (1922–2000) and a Swedish mother, Baroness Louise Peyron (1918–1989). His father was a member of the German princely House of Reuss. His mother's family, Peyron, immigrated to Sweden from France in 1740, was ennobled in Sweden in 1825, conferred baronial status in 1841 and introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility the following year. Louise Peyron was an artist.

The House of Reuss names all of their male children Heinrich (English: Henry) after the end of the 12th century in honour of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1190–97), to whom they owed the estates of Weida and Gera. The prince was known by the Italian given name of Ruzzo. He grew up with his grandfather in Rome after his parents divorced, but spent the summers with his mother in Scania. In 1972, his mother remarried nobleman Theodor Stig Jakob Christoffer "Ted" Ankarcrona (1918–1984), owner of the estate Boserup in Scania and Runsa Castle in Uppland.

He was educated in Sweden, where he was a schoolfriend of King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, having attended the same boarding school. Prince Ruzzo and the then-Crown Prince of Sweden enjoyed hunting together.

Later in life, he relocated to Switzerland, where he lived on his family castle in Fribourg. In 1989, his mother died and he inherited her farm in Glumslöv outside Landskrona. He was interested in golf and constructed two golf courses on his properties in Switzerland and Lundsberg, Sweden.

Marriages and issue

Prince Heinrich Ruzzo was married to Mette Rinde, a native of Norway, from 1974 to 1986, and they had twin daughters:

Princess Henriette Anna-Bess Helle Mette Reuss, Countess of Plauen (born 2 June 1977 in Oslo), married Jan Herud, a German businessperson
Princess Pauline Margaretha Emma-Louise Mette Reuss, Countess of Plauen (born 2 June 1977 in Oslo)

From 1986 he lived with former ABBA singer Frida Lyngstad in Switzerland; they married on August 26, 1992. He died from lymphoma in 1999.^[1]

Ancestry

Family of Heinrich Ruzzo Prinz Reuss von Plauen

8. Prince Heinrich XXVI Reuss of Köstritz
(1857–1913)

4. Heinrich Harry, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen
(1890–1951)

9. Viktoria, Countess of Fürstenstein
(1863–1949)

2. Heinrich Enzio, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen
(1922–2000)

10. Franz-Hubert Peter von Tiele-Winckler
(1857–1922)

5. Huberta Valeska Sascha Eva Anna Dorothea von Tiele-Winckler
(1889–1974)

11. Jelka Marka Clementine Geogine von Lepel
(1857–1942)

1. Ruzzo, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen

12. Baron Gustaf Fredrik Peyron
(1854–1934)

6. Baron Gustaf Carl Knut Bartholomai Peyron (1889), Lieutenant

13. Ebba Eleonora Charlotta Augusta Hallenborg

3. Baroness Louise Ebba Pauline Peyron
(1918–1989)

14. Frans Henrik Kockum
(1840–1910)

7. Emma Marie Louise Kockum
(1892)

15. Laura Louise von Platen
(1851–1920)

References

^ ABBA Star Who Became A Princess, express.co.uk

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