Henry_I_of_Castile

Henry I of Castile

Henry I of Castile

King of Castile and Toledo from 1214 to 1217

Henry I of Castile (in Spanish, Enrique I, 14 April 1204[1] – 6 June 1217) was king of Castile. He was the son of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine).[2] He was the brother of Berenguela and Mafalda of Castile.[3]

Quick Facts King of Castile and Toledo, Reign ...

In 1211, Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Ferdinand suddenly died.

When his father died in 1214, Henry was just 10 years old, so the regency was assumed by Henry's older sister Berengaria of Castile,[4] wife of Alfonso IX of Leon.

In 1215, Henry married Mafalda of Portugal, daughter of Sancho I of Portugal. As he was very young, the marriage was not consummated, and it was dissolved in 1216 by Pope Innocent III on grounds of consanguinity. In the same year, Henry became betrothed to his second cousin Sancha, heiress of León.

Henry died in Palencia in 1217 at the age of 13, killed by a tile coming off a roof. His sister Berengaria succeeded him, before renouncing the throne in favour of her son Ferdinand III.[5] His body was buried at Las Huelgas monastery in Burgos.[6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Anales Toledanos
  2. [2]
    Previté-Orton, Charles William, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, (Cambridge University Press, 1952), 828.
  3. [3]
    Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2007). Alfonso VIII, rey de Castilla y Toledo (1158–1214). Gijón: Ediciones Trea, S.L. pp. 46–53. ISBN 978-84-9704-327-4.
  4. [4]
    Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium
  5. [5]
    Craig Taylor, Debating the Hundred Years War, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 87.
  6. [6]
    Enrique I, King of Castile, Theresa M. Vann, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, Ed. E. Gerli, (Routledge, 2003), 303.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henry I of Castile.
  • Charles William Previté-Orton, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge University Press, 1952.
  • Taylor, Craig, Debating the Hundred Years War, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
More information Regnal titles ...
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Henry_I_of_Castile, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.