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Henry the Fowler (German: Heinrich der Vogler or Heinrich der Finkler; Latin: Henricus Auceps; c. 876 – 2 July 936 [2]) was the duke of Saxony from 912 [2] and the king of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936.
Archbishop Hermann crowned Henry King of Germany in Aachen on 17 July 1054. [29] [30] On this occasion, Henry's two-year-old younger brother, Conrad, most likely received Bavaria from their father. [29] When Conrad died in 1055, the Emperor gave Bavaria to Empress Agnes. [31] The Emperor betrothed Henry to Bertha of Savoy in late 1055. [32]
So it was without the support of the kingdom's nobility that Henry took the radical action of having himself anointed and crowned King of Germany ("Rex Romanorum") by Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz on 9 July 1002 at Mainz, in present-day Germany. Henry's action marked the first time a German king was not crowned in Aachen Cathedral since Emperor ...
Henry was born in autumn 1165 at the Valkhof pfalz of Nijmegen to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy. At the age of four his father had him elected King of the Romans during a Hoftag in Bamberg at Pentecost 1169. Henry was crowned on 15 August at Aachen Cathedral. [4] [5]
King of Germany r. 1440–1493 Holy Roman Emperor r. 1452–1493: Eleanor of Portugal 1434–1467: Margarete 1395–1447: Henry XVI 1386–1450 Duke of Bavaria: Albert II 1397–1439 King of Germany r. 1438–1439: Elizabeth of Luxembourg 1409–1442: Isabella I 1451–1504 Queen of Castile: Ferdinand II 1452–1516 King of Aragon and Castile ...
Henry was born in Winchester Castle on 1 October 1207. [3] He was the eldest son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême. [4] Little is known of Henry's early life. [5] He was initially looked after by a wet nurse called Ellen in the south of England, away from John's itinerant court, and probably had close ties to his mother. [6]
Henry's father died in 1139, aged 32, when Henry was still a child. King Conrad III had dispossessed Henry the Proud of his duchies in 1138 and 1139, handing Saxony to Albert the Bear and Bavaria to Leopold of Austria. This was because Henry the Proud had been his rival for the Crown in 1138.
Henry VII (German: Heinrich; Vulgar Latin: Arrigo; c. 1273 [3] – 24 August 1313), [4] also known as Henry of Luxembourg, was Count of Luxembourg, King of Germany (Rex Romanorum) from 1308 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1312. He was the first emperor of the House of Luxembourg.