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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.
It was first mentioned as a town in 922 as part of a donation by King Henry the Fowler (Heinrich der Vogler). The records of this donation were held by the abbey of Corvey. According to legend, Henry had been offered the German crown at Quedlinburg in 919 by Franconian nobles, giving rise to the town being called the "cradle of the German Reich".
Heinrich Himmler and other senior SS staff in the crypt, 2 July 1938. The graves of Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the Fowler), King of East Francia and his wife Mathilda are located in the crypt of the church. Heinrich's grave only contains a battered empty stone coffin; the whereabouts of the king's remains and time and circumstances of their ...
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.
Henry II (951 – 28 August 995), called the Wrangler or the Quarrelsome (German: Heinrich der Zänker), a member of the German royal Ottonian dynasty, was Duke of Bavaria from 955 to 976 and again from 985 to 995, as well as Duke of Carinthia from 989 to 995.
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]
The Pfuel family, also known as Pfuhl or Phull, is an ancient German noble family with a history that traces back to the year 926 when they first arrived in Brandenburg with King Henry the Fowler, who started governing the region in 928–929, allowing Emperor Otto I to establish the Northern March in 936 during the German Ostsiedlung.
Two of Thietmar’s great-grandfathers, both named Lothar, were killed in the Battle of Lenzen, pitting the forces of Henry the Fowler against the Slavs. The early Margraves of the Nordmark were descended from the House of Walbeck. There were close relationships, and rivalries, between the Counts of Walbeck and the Counts of Stade