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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.
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He was the second son of the German king Henry the Fowler and his wife Matilda of Ringelheim. [1] After the death of his father, the royal title passed to Henry's elder brother Otto I, who immediately had to face the indignation of several Saxon nobles.
The following image is a family tree of every prince, king, queen, monarch, confederation president and emperor of Germany, from Charlemagne in 800 over Louis the German in 843 through to Wilhelm II in 1918. It shows how almost every single ruler of Germany was related to every other by marriages, and hence they can all be put into a single tree.
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]
She was the mother of King Henry the Fowler. Her parentage is not clearly stated in contemporary sources, but she was probably the daughter of Henry of Franconia (d. 886), documented as a princeps militiae of the East Frankish king Louis the Younger and dux of Austrasia under emperor Charles the Fat .