Henrik I Av SACHSEN

876 - 936  (60 years)

• Name	Henrik I Av SACHSEN
  Birth	876	Sachsen
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Konge
  Residence	Sachsen
  Death	936	Tyskland
  Notes	Henry I (of Germany), called Henry The Fowler (c. 876-936), King of Germany (919-936), the first of the Saxon line of German kings. In 912 Henry succeeded his father as Duke of Saxony. Following the death of Conrad I, King of Germany, in 918, Henr y was chosen King by the Franconian and Saxon nobles. Bavaria, Swabia, and Lotharingia refused to acknowledge him at first, and it was not until 925 that he managed to win recognition from all the German states. In 926 Henry secured a nine-year tr uce from warfare with the Magyars. During that period he transformed many of the small towns of Germany into fortified cities with trained troops of mounted warriors. His military preparations were successfully tested in a war against the Wend s in 929. When the Magyars invaded Thuringia in 933, Henry repulsed them decisively. He defeated the Danes in the following year and seized territory from them. Henry was the first to create a united Germany, and, although he never received the im perial crown, he is generally recognized as one of the Holy Roman Emperors. He was succeeded by his son, Otto. FRA BRITANNICUS Henry I, also called HENRY THE FOWLER, German HEINRICH DER VOGLER (b. c. 876--d. July 2, 936, Memleben, Saxony [now in Germany]), German king and founder of the Saxon dynasty (918-1024) who strengthened the East Frankish, or German, army, encourag ed the growth of towns, brought Lotharingia (Lorraine) back under German control (925), and secured German borders against pagan incursions. The son of Otto the Illustrious, the Liudolfing duke of Saxony, Henry became duke at his father's death (912). His first marriage, to Hatheburg, daughter of Erwin, count of Merseburg, was declared invalid because she had become a nun after her fir st husband's death. He married Matilda, daughter of Dietrich, count of Westphalia, in 909; their eldest son would rule as the Holy Roman emperor Otto I the Great (936-973). Although at war (912-915) with Conrad I of Franconia (German king, 903-918) over title to lands in Thuringia, Henry received Conrad's deathbed designation as heir to the throne. He was elected king of Germany (May 919) by nobles of Saxony and Fran conia, two of the four most influential duchies; the other two important duchies, Swabia and Bavaria, did not recognize him as king. Henry considered Germany a confederation of duchies rather than a nation. Having complete authority in Saxony and nominal sovereignty in Franconia, he sought to bring the duchies of Swabia and Bavaria into the confederation. After forcing the subm ission of Burchard, duke of Swabia (919), he allowed the duke to retain control over the civil administration of the duchy. On the basis of an election by Bavarian and East Frankish nobles (919), Arnulf, duke of Bavaria, also claimed the German th rone. In 921, after two military campaigns, the king forced Arnulf to submit and relinquish his claim to the throne, though the duke retained complete internal control of Bavaria. Henry defeated Giselbert, king of Lotharingia, in 925, and that region, which had become independent of Germany in 910, was brought back under German control. Giselbert, who was recognized as duke of Lotharingia, married the king's daughter Gerber ga in 928. When the Magyars, barbarian warriors from Hungary, invaded Germany in 924, Henry agreed to pay tribute to them and return a captured Magyar chief in exchange for a nine-year (924-933) cession of raids on German territory. During these years the ki ng built fortified towns and trained the cavalry force he used to defeat various Slavic tribes; he conquered the Havelli at Brandenburg and the Daleminzi at Meissen in 928 and suppressed a rebellion in Bohemia in 929. The king refused to pay mor e tribute when the nine-year truce ended in 933. He used his seasoned cavalry to destroy the Magyars, who had resumed their raids, at Riade on March 15, 933, and ended their threat to the German countryside. The king's last campaign, an invasio n of Denmark (934), added the territory of Schleswig to the German state. The story that Henry received the surname Fowler because he was laying bird snares when informed of his election as king is probably a myth. Copyright 1994-1999 Encyclopædia Britannica Han ble først hertug av Sachsen, da som Henrik den IV av Sachsen
  Person ID	I4112	Valdres Slekt
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2007

  
  

  Father	Otto "The ILLUSTRIOS",   b. Abt 870, Sachsen d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Hedwige (Hathui ) Av TYSKLAND,   b. Abt 880, Sachsen d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mathilda Av OLDENBURG,   b. Abt 880, Ringelheim d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Heinrich VON BAYERN,   b. Sachsen Og Bayern d. 955, Bayern, Tyskland + 2. Hedwig Av TYSKLAND,   b. Abt 900   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Otto I "Der Grosse" Av TYSKLAND,   b. 23 Nov 0912, Tyskland d. 7 May 0973, Tyskland (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F1953	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2007