Henry II (Vaudémont)

Coat of arms of Henry II of Vaudémont

Heinrich II. (* Around 1255 , † 1299 ) was a count of Vaudémont . He was a son of Count Heinrich I and Margarete de la Roche.

Heinrich had been the reign of Vaudémont since 1265 after his father and older brother, Rainald , moved to southern Italy with Karl von Anjou . In 1277 he supported Duke Friedrich III. of Lorraine fighting the Bishop of Metz . After the father and brother died in Italy within a year, Heinrich was able to take over the inheritance in Vaudémont in 1279. When the Sicilian Vespers broke out in 1282 , he and his two younger brothers decided to move to Italy as well, to defend their heritage, the county of Ariano, against the King of Aragón . The three brothers were killed in a naval battle off the coast of Sicily in 1299.

Heinrich was married to Hélisente de Vergy, a daughter of Jean I. de Vergy, from 1280. Your children were:

• Henry III. († 1348), Count of Vaudémont
• Margerete († 1336), ∞ around 1301 with Jean "Boutefeu" de Joinville, son of the chronicler Jean de Joinville
• Johanna († 1347), Abbess of Remiremont
• Isabella, a nun in Soissons

literature

• Michel François: Histoire des comtes et du comté de Vaudémont des origines à 1473. Humblot, Nancy 1935.

predecessor	Office	successor
Rainald	Count of Vaudémont 1279–1299	Henry III.