Henry of Bohemia

Henry of Carinthia
Seal of Henry, Duke of Carinthia, 1303
King of Bohemia and (titular) Poland
Reign	1306
Predecessor	Wenceslaus III Přemyslid
Successor	Rudolph I of Habsburg
King of Bohemia and (titular) Poland
Reign	3/4 July 1307 – 31 August 1310
Predecessor	Rudolph I of Habsburg
Successor	John the Blind
Duke of Carinthia
Reign	1 November 1295 – 2 April 1335
Predecessor	Meinhard
Successor	Albert II of Austria
Count of Tyrol
Reign	1 November 1295 – 2 April 1335
Predecessor	Meinhard
Successor	Margaret with John Henry of Luxembourg
Spouse	Anna Přemyslovna Adelaide of Brunswick-Lüneburg Beatrice of Savoy
Father	Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol
Mother	Elisabeth of Wittelsbach
Born	about 1265
Died	2 April 1335 (aged 70) Castle Tyrol
Burial	Stams Abbey

Henry VI of Carinthia (Czech: Jindřich Korutanský, circa 1265 – 2 April 1335) from the House of Meinhardin was King of Bohemia in 1306 and again from 1307 until 1310 as well as Count of Tyrol and Duke of Carinthia and Carniola from 1295 until his death.

Contents 1 Life 2 Marriage and issue 3 Ancestry 4 References

Life

Henry was the son of Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol and Elisabeth, daughter of the Bavarian duke Otto II Wittelsbach. His father bequeathed him the estates of Carinthia and Tyrol, which he at first ruled jointly with his brothers Otto and Louis, until he outlived them. He secured his position by supporting his brother-in-law, the Austrian duke Albert I of Habsburg, who defeated his rival Adolf of Nassau at the 1298 Battle of Göllheim and was elected King of the Romans in the same year.

However tensions with the House of Habsburg arose when in 1306 Henry married Anna Přemyslovna, daughter of the dead King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia. As the last Přemyslid ruler, Wenceslaus III was murdered in the same year, his brother-in-law Henry was elected actual King of Bohemia and titular King of Poland (1307–1310) - against the will of German king Albert I of Habsburg, who intended to install his eldest son Rudolph on the Bohemian throne. The Habsburgs immediately campaigned Bohemia, sieged Prague and deposed Henry, who had to yield to their superior forces.

Rudolph however was never accepted by the Bohemian nobility, and after he died on 4 July 1307, Henry was elected King of Bohemia again, on 15 August. The threat by the Habsburg dynasty fell apart with the assassination of King Albert I in 1308; however, Henry's rule was not stabilized and the new German king Henry VII of Luxembourg also had cast a covetous eye on the Bohemian kingdom. In 1310 he arranged the marriage of his eldest son John the Blind with Elisabeth Přemyslovna, the younger sister of the deceased King Wenceslaus III. Backed by local nobles and his father, John campaigned Bohemia and deposed Henry for the second time. John was crowned king the next year, while Henry and Anna were forced to retire to Carinthia.

Henry managed to retain his Carinthian and Tyrolean estates by reconciliation with the Habsburg dynasty. Insisting on the title of a "King of Bohemia" and the involved electoral dignity, he took part in the 1314 election of the rex Romanorum, voting for the Habsburg Frederick the Fair. His contested right to vote was one of the reasons for the ambiguous result, as Henry's rival John of Luxembourg gave the Bohemian vote to Louis IV of Wittelsbach. Henry later helped to arrange an amicable settlement between the competitors.

Marriage and issue

Henry was married three times:

In 1306, he married Anna Přemyslovna (1290–1313). This marriage produced no children.

In 1313, he wed Adelaide of Brunswick (1285–1320), daughter of Henry I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. This marriage produced two daughters:

1. Adelaide (1317–25 May 1325).
2. Margaret "Maultasch" (1318–3 October 1369, Vienna), Countess of Tyrol from 1335 to 1363.

In 1327, he married Beatrice (1310–1331), daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy. This marriage produced no children.

Henry also reconciled with the House of Luxembourg and in 1330 married his daughter Margaret off to King John's son John Henry. Since he was the last male heir of the Tyrolean Meinhardiner dynasty, he attempted to maintain their possessions, but ultimately failed. Even though Emperor Louis IV, in return for Henry's mediation in the dispute with Frederick the Fair, had assured him in 1330 that his daughter could succeed him, Louis reneged on his promise in a secret treaty with the House of Habsburg in the same year. After Henry's death in 1335, the Austrian duke Albert II of Habsburg and his brother Otto IV the Merry took control of Carinthia and Carniola. Henry's daughter Margaret could only succeed him in Tyrol, but in 1363 had to bequeath her land to Albert's II son Rudolf IV of Habsburg as well.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Henry of Bohemia

16. Engelbert II, Count of Gorizia               8. Engelbert III, Count of Gorizia                       17. Adelaide of Valley               4. Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol                             18. Bertold III, Count of Andechs               9. Matilda of Andechs                       19. Hedwig of Wittelsbach               2. Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia                                   20. Henry I, Count of Tyrol               10. Albert IV, Count of Tyrol                       21. Agnes of Wangen               5. Adelaide of Tyrol                             22. Henry II, Count of Frontenhausen               11. Uta of Frontenhausen                       23. Adelaide of Plain               1. Henry of Bohemia                                         24. Otto I, Duke of Bavaria               12. Louis I, Duke of Bavaria                       25. Agnes of Loon               6. Otto II, Duke of Bavaria                             26. Frederick, Duke of Bohemia               13. Ludmilla of Bohemia                       27. Elizabeth of Hungary               3. Elisabeth of Bavaria                                   28. Henry III, Duke of Saxony               14. Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine                       29. Matilda of England               7. Agnes of the Palatinate                             30. Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine               15. Agnes of Hohenstaufen                       31. Irmgard of Henneberg

References

• Genealogy of the House of Gorizia

Preceded by Meinhard II	Duke of Carinthia Margrave of Carniola 1295–1335 With: Otto III and Louis	Succeeded by Albert II and Otto IV
	Count of Tyrol 1295–1335 With: Otto III and Louis	Succeeded by Margaret
Preceded by Wenceslaus III	King of Bohemia 1306	Succeeded by Rudolf I
Preceded by Rudolf I	King of Bohemia 1307–1310	Succeeded by John

Monarchs of Bohemia Přemyslid c.870–1306 Bořivoj I Spytihněv I Vratislaus I Wenceslaus I Boleslaus I Boleslaus II Boleslaus III Vladivoj Boleslaus III Boleslaus the Brave1 Jaromír Oldrich Jaromír Oldrich Bretislaus I Spytihněv II Vratislaus II Conrad I Bretislaus II Bořivoj II Svatopluk the Lion Vladislaus I Bořivoj II Vladislaus I Sobeslaus I Vladislaus II Frederick Sobeslaus II Bedřich Conrad II Wenceslaus II Ottokar I Bretislaus III Vladislaus III Ottokar I 2 Wenceslaus I Ottokar II Wenceslaus II Wenceslaus III Non-dynastic 1306–1310 Henry the Carinthian Rudolph I Henry the Carinthian Luxembourg 1310–1437 John the Blind Charles I Wenceslaus IV Sigismund Habsburg 1437–1457 Albert Interregnum Ladislaus the Posthumous Non-dynastic 1457–1471 George of Poděbrady Matthias Corvinus3 Jagiellon 1471–1526 Vladislaus II Louis Habsburg 1526–1780 Ferdinand I Maximilian Rudolph II Matthias II Ferdinand II Frederick Ferdinand III Ferdinand IV Leopold I Joseph I Charles II Charles Albert3 Maria Theresa Habsburg-Lorraine 1780–1918 Joseph II Leopold II Francis Ferdinand V Francis Joseph Charles III 1 Also duke of Poland from the Piast dynasty. 2 Hereditary kings since 1198. 3 Antiking.

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Name	Henry Of Carinthia
Alternative names
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Date of birth	1265
Place of birth
Date of death	2 April 1335
Place of death	Castle Tyrol