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Henry I (919/921 – 1 November 955), a member of the German royal Ottonian dynasty, was Duke of Bavaria from 948 until his death. Life. He was the second son of the German king Henry the Fowler and his wife Matilda of Ringelheim. [1] .
The most powerful of the German princes of his time, until the rival Hohenstaufen dynasty succeeded in isolating him and eventually depriving him of his duchies of Bavaria and Saxony during the reign of his cousin Frederick I and of Frederick's son and successor Henry VI.
Henry the Fowler (German: Heinrich der Vogler or Heinrich der Finkler; Latin: Henricus Auceps) (c. 876 – 2 July 936) was the Duke of Saxony from 912 and the King of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936.
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Henry IX (1075 – 13 December 1126), called the Black, a member of the House of Welf, was duke of Bavaria from 1120 to 1126. Henry was the second son of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria and Judith of Flanders. As a young man, he administered the family's property south of the Alps.
Henry became Duke of Lower Bavaria and Louis of Upper Bavaria. From this point until the beginning of the 16th century, the territories were frequently divided between brothers, making the dukes difficult to list.
Biography. King of Germany from 1056 and Emperor from 1084, until his abdication in 1105; third emperor of the Salian dynasty; eldest son of the Emperor Henry III, by his second wife Agnes de Poitou, probably born at the royal palace at Goslar; when Henry III unexpectedly died in 1056, the accession of the 6-year-old Henry IV was not opposed ...
Christian saint (canonised 1146) and Holy Roman Emperor; born in Bavaria, educated Hildesheim, and succeeded his father Henry the Quarrelsome as Duke of Bavaria; founded a cathedral and monastery at Bamberg; married to St Cunegund (q.v.).
