Henry VIII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen

Henry VIII of Henneberg (c. 1288 – 10 September 1347) succeeded his father Berthold VII the Wise as Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen in 1340, in whose reign the house ran short of sons. In 1312 his marriage to Jutta of Brandenburg restored the Coburg domain to Henneberg, practically doubling its territory.

But the marriage produced only surviving daughters. In 1339 his younger brother John reserved his right to inherit the county, and in 1340 Emperor Louis IV confirmed it.

Shortly before his death in 1347 Henry settled the succession. The southern New Lordship, largely Jutta's dowry, went to his widow and his three unprovided daughters, while the old northern Henneberg lands passed to John I, so the enlarged county was split again.