Heinrich I (Anhalt)

"The Duke of Halts" in the tournament ( Codex Manesse , 14th century)

Seal of Heinrich I of Anhalt

Heinrich I, Prince of Anhalt (* around 1170 , † 1252 ) was a ruling Anhalt sovereign from the Ascanian dynasty .

Life

After the death of his father, Duke Bernhard III. in 1212 the land was divided up between the deceased's two sons, as is customary with the Ascanians: Heinrich took over the county in what would later become Anhalt and Albrecht took over the Saxon area. From 1218 Heinrich was raised to the rank of prince, because he took part in the court days of the Hohenstaufen Friedrich II and minted coins. As early as 1215 he called himself "Prince in Anhalt" in a document issued at Lopene Castle near Raguhn .

Heinrich's most famous ministerial officer was Eike von Repgow (around 1180 to after 1233) from Reppichau , who wrote the Sachsenspiegel at the request of Count Hoyer von Falkenstein and co-wrote Hoyer in the above. Document from 1215 appeared as a witness.

As a minstrel , Heinrich I was included in the Heidelberg Manessische Liederhandschrift at the beginning of the 14th century (erroneously as "Duke") , the two of his minnesongs ( I wil den winter enpfahen with sang , Sta bi la mich den wint an weien ) with a total of five Contains stanzas, including the following, translated into New High German:

I want to greet the winter with singing,

whether the birds are silent.

Not supposed to be under his pressure

the love of joy be bitter to me.

Marriage and offspring

Heinrich I was married to Irmgard (* around 1197 , † around 1244 ), a daughter of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia and the Bavarian duke's daughter Sophia .

The following children were born out of the marriage:

• Heinrich II. (* 1215 , † after June 12, 1266 ), called "der Fette", founder of the Aschersleben line ,
• Jutta von Anhalt († after May 14, 1277 ), married on March 10, 1233 to Nikolaus I. von Werle ,
• Sophie († on November 23, 1272 ), married in 1232 to Otto VII Duke of Meranien , later to Siegfried Graf von Regenstein , most recently to Otto I Graf von Hadmersleben
• Bernhard I (* 1218 , † 1287 ) - founder of the Bernburg line
• Albrecht († around 1245 ), Franciscan
• Hermann († 1289 ), Provost of Halberstadt
• Magnus († after June 18, 1264 ), Provost of Lebus
• Otto († after July 19, 1246 ), Canon of Magdeburg ,
• Siegfried I (* around 1230 , † after March 25, 1298 ), founder of the Köthen line
• Hedwig († December 21, 1259 ), married in 1242 to Duke Boleslaw II of Silesia
• Gertrud († 1275 ), Abbess of Gernrode ( 1260 -1275)

literature

• Edmund Blume: Heinrich I., Count of Asharia and Prince of Anhalt . Paul Dünnhaupt, Koethen 1895
• Bernhard Spring : Heinrich von Anhalt. The poet count . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , December 12, 2013, p. 14f.
• Otto von Heinemann:  Heinrich I, Count of Asharia and Prince of Anhalt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 449 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich I. (Anhalt)  - Sources and full texts

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernhard	Prince of Anhalt 1212–1252	---