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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.
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.
Fowler was born on 10 March 1858 in Tonbridge, Kent. His parents, the Rev. Robert Fowler and his wife Caroline, née Watson, were originally from Devon. Robert Fowler was a Cambridge graduate, clergyman and schoolmaster. At the time of Henry's birth he was teaching mathematics at Tonbridge School, but the family soon moved to nearby Tunbridge ...
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]
Quedlinburg Abbey (German: Stift Quedlinburg or Reichsstift Quedlinburg) was a house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in Quedlinburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. [1] [2] It was founded in 936 on the initiative of Saint Mathilda, the widow of the East Frankish King Henry the Fowler, as his memorial. [3]
Upon Otto's death in 912, his son Henry the Fowler succeeded him as Duke of Saxony. Henry had married Matilda of Ringelheim, a descendant of the legendary Saxon ruler Widukind and heiress to extended estates in Westphalia.
Henry Fowler may refer to: Henry the Fowler (861–936), Duke of Saxony and King of the Germans; Henry Fowler (hymn writer) (1779–1838), English hymn writer; Henry Fowler (American politician) (1799–?), American farmer and politician in Maryland and Wisconsin; Henry J. Fowler, Maryland businessman and legislator
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.