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HENRY RASPE (c. 1202—1247)

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HENRY See also:RASPE (c. 1202—1247) , See also:German See also:king and See also:landgrave of Thuringia, was the second surviving son of See also:Hermann 1, landgrave of Thuringia, and See also:Sophia, daughter of See also:Otto I., See also:duke of See also:Bavaria. When his See also:brother the landgrave See also:Louis IV. died in See also:Italy in See also:September 1227, Henry seized the See also:government Thuringia and expelled his brother's widow, St See also:Elizabeth of See also:Hungary, and her son Hermann. With some trouble Henry made See also:good his position, although his See also:nephew Hermann II. VMS nominally the landgrave, and was declared of See also:age in 1237. Henry, who governed with a zealous regard for his own interests, remained loyal to the emperorFrederick II. during his See also:quarrel with the See also:Lombards and the revolt of his son Henry. In 12;36 he accompanied the See also:emperor on a See also:campaign against See also:Frederick 1L, duke of See also:Austria, and took See also:part in the See also:election of his son See also:Conrad as German king at See also:Vienna in 1237. He appears, however, to have become somewhat estranged from Frederick after this expedition, for he did not appear at the See also:diet of See also:Verona in 1238; and it is not improbable that he disliked the See also:betrothal of his nephew Hermann to the emperor's daughter See also:Margaret. At all events, when the projected See also:marriage had been broken off the landgrave publicly showed his See also:loyalty to the emperor in 1239 in opposition to a See also:plan formed by various princes to elect an See also:anti-king. Henry, whose attitude at this See also:time was very important to Frederick, was probably kept loyal by the See also:influence which his brother Conrad, See also:grand-See also:master of the See also:Teutonic See also:Order, exercised over him, for after the See also:death of this brother in 1241 Henry's loyalty again wavered, and he was himself mentioned as a possible anti-king. Frederick's visit to See also:Germany in 1242 was successful in preventing this step for a time, and in May of that See also:year the landgrave was appointed See also:administrator of Germany for King Conrad; and by the death of his nephew in this year he became the nominal, as well as the actual, ruler of Thuringia. Again he contemplated deserting the cause of Frederick, and in See also:April 1246 See also:Pope See also:Innocent IV. wrote to the German princes advising them to choose Henry as their king in See also:place of Frederick who had just been declared deposed.

Acting on these instructions, Henry was elected at Veitshochheim on the 22nd of May 1246, and owing to the part played by the spiritual princes in this election was called the Pfaffenkonig, or See also:

parsons' king. See also:Collecting an See also:army, he defeated King Conrad near See also:Frankfort on the 5th of See also:August 1246, and then, after holding a diet at See also:Nuremberg, undertook the See also:siege of See also:Ulm. But he was soon compelled to give up this enterprise, and returning to Thuringia died at the See also:Wartburg on the 17th of See also:February 1247. Henry married Gertrude, See also:sister of Frederick II., duke of Austria, but See also:left no See also:children, and on his death the male See also:line of his See also:family became See also:extinct. See F. See also:Reuss, See also:Die Wahl Heinrich Raspes (See also:Ludenscheid, 1878) ; A. Rubesamen, Landgref Heinrich Raspe von Thiiringen (See also:Halle, 1885); F. W. Schirrmacher, Die letzten See also:Hohenstaufen (See also:Gottingen, 1871); E. See also:Winkelmann, Kaiser See also:Friedrich.II. (See also:Leipzig, 1889), and T. Knochenhauer, Geschichte Thuringens zur Zeit See also:des ersten Landgrafenhauses (See also:Gotha, 1871).

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