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Henry the Fowler is a main character of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin. Henry the Fowler is one of two antagonists, being the end boss in the final mission of the 2001 game Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The game portrays him as an evil necromancer and anachronistically places him in 943 CE, 7 years after his actual death year of 936.
Matilda of Ringelheim (c. 892 – 14 March 968 [1]), also known as Saint Matilda, was a Saxon noblewoman who became queen of Germany.Her husband, Henry the Fowler, was the first king from the Ottonian dynasty, [2] and their eldest son, Otto the Great, restored the Holy Roman Empire in 962. [3]
Hedwig was a younger daughter of the Saxon duke Henry the Fowler (c. 876 – 936), elected king of East Francia in 919, and his second wife, Matilda of Ringelheim (c. 895 – 968). [1] Her siblings were Otto I , who succeeded his father as king and was crowned emperor in 962; Duke Henry I of Bavaria ; Gerberga of Saxony , who married King Louis ...
While King Henry the Fowler tries to assemble forces in Brabant to combat the Hungarian invasions, Lohengrin appears on the Scheldt River to defend Princess Elsa from the false accusation of killing her younger brother Gottfried (who turns out to be alive and returns at the end of the opera). According to Wagner, the Grail imbues the Knight of ...
Henry (b. about 932) Gerberge (b. about 935), who married Adalbert I of Vermandois; Wiltrude (b. about 937) Jocundus, a Lotharingian chronicler writing in the 1070s, recorded that Gerberga was the driving force behind Gilbert's decision to support her younger brother Henry when he rebelled against her older brother Otto I c. 936. [4]
Articles relating to Henry the Fowler, King of East Francia (c.876-936, reigned 919-936) and his reign. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Henry, Holy Roman Emperor may refer to: Henry the Fowler (876 – 936), duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973 – 1024), the Holy or the Saint, 5th and last Holy Roman Emperor of the Ottonian dynasty; King of Germany and King of Italy
Historians agree that the Hungarian campaign of 919-920 started from Arnulf's thirst for revenge, because Henry the Fowler was elected as German king and not him. [5] [7] Liutprand of Cremona writes that the cause of the campaign was to force the new king to pay tribute, and the most persuasive instrument to convince him, was an army.