Henry I
King Henry I in the Castilian manuscript Compendium of Chronicles of Kings (c. 1312-1325).
King of Castile and Toledo
Reign5 October 1214 – 6 June 1217
PredecessorAlfonso VIII
SuccessorBerengaria
Born14 April 1204
Valladolid
Died6 June 1217(1217-06-06) (aged 13)
Palencia
Burial
Las Huelgas, Burgos
Spouse
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(m. 1215; ann. 1216)​
HouseCastilian House of Ivrea
FatherAlfonso VIII of Castile
MotherEleanor of England
ReligionRoman Catholicism

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]

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. ^ Anales Toledanos
  2. ^ Previté-Orton, Charles William, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, (Cambridge University Press, 1952), 828.
  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. ^ Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium
  5. ^ Craig Taylor, Debating the Hundred Years War, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 87.
  6. ^ Enrique I, King of Castile, Theresa M. Vann, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, Ed. E. Gerli, (Routledge, 2003), 303.

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Henry I of Castile Castilian House of IvreaCadet branch of the House of IvreaBorn: 14 April 1204 Died: 6 June 1217 Regnal titles Preceded byAlfonso VIII King of Castile 1214–1217 Succeeded byBerengaria
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