Heinrich (princeps militiae)
Heinrich I (attested in 860; † August 28, 886 outside Paris ), from the Frankish Babenberg family , was the older son of Count Poppo in Saalgau , Margrave of Friesland.
Like his father, Heinrich was an avowed opponent of King Ludwig the German (840-876) and was involved in the conspiracy against Ludwig, which from 861 onwards caused an uproar in eastern Franconia and Bavaria so uncoordinated that the king made his opponents could submit one after the other.
In 866 he was the princeps militiae of the part-king Ludwig III. the Younger , under Charles III. the fat as his supreme general temporarily marchio francorum and dux Austrasiorum . In 880 Heinrich was the commander of the army that marched against the Alsatian Duke Hugo , the son of Lothar II . His most important task, however, was the fight against the Normans invading the Rhineland . In 884 he was at the head of the army that defended Saxony against the Normans (with Bishop Arn at his side ) and in the same year liberated occupied Duisburg and the Lower Rhine from Viking rule. In the following year he also ended the rule of the Normans in Friesland - this was mainly achieved through the murder of the Norman military leaders Gottfried and Sigfrid. In the same year he intervened in favor of his brother Poppo (II.) In the dispute over the office of Duke of Thuringia.
A year later, in 886, again in action against the Normans, this time in Neustria as the local military commander of Charles III., Heinrich was ambushed during the siege of Paris by the Normans, which he was supposed to lift: his horse fell while exploring, which he had launched from the royal palace Quierzy on the Oise into a Norman pitfall, and Heinrich was slain in the pit by Normans lurking nearby. He was buried in the monastery of St. Médard in Soissons .
Heinrich was the father of the three brothers who perished in the Babenberg feud :
- Adalbert , executed June 9, 906, Count 888
- Adalhard , executed in 902, count 888
- Heinrich; † 902/903, Count 888
He also had a daughter, Hadui (ch) († December 24, 903) who was married to Otto the Illustrious Liudolfinger , Duke of Saxony († November 30, 912) since around 869/870 . Thus, the princeps militiae Heinrich was the grandfather of the German King Heinrich I and the one who brought the actually Robertine name Heinrich into the East Franconian nobility. Ingeltrud , the daughter of Eberhard of Friuli, is discussed as Heinrich's wife .
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| SURNAME | Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Frankish Count of the Babenbergs, eldest son of Count Poppo I. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 860 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 886 |
| Place of death | before Paris |