Editing Henry I of Castile

{{Short description|King of Castile and Toledo from 1214 to 1217}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Henry I
| image        = Henrique I de Castela - Compendio de crónicas de reyes (Biblioteca Nacional de España).png
| caption      = King Henry I in the Castilian manuscript ''[[Semblanzas de reyes|Compendium of Chronicles of Kings]]'' (c. 1312-1325).
| succession   = [[List of Castilian monarchs|King of Castile]] and [[Kingdom of Toledo (Crown of Castile)|Toledo]]
| reign        = 5 October 1214 &ndash; 6 June 1217
| coronation   =
| predecessor  = [[Alfonso VIII of Castile|Alfonso VIII]]
| successor    = [[Berengaria of Castile|Berengaria]]
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Mafalda of Portugal]]|1215|1216|end=annulled}}
| house        = [[Castilian House of Ivrea]]
| father       = [[Alfonso VIII of Castile]]
| mother       = [[Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile|Eleanor of England]]
| birth_date   = 14 April 1204
| birth_place  = [[Valladolid]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1217|06|06|1204|04|14|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Palencia]]
| burial_date  =
| burial_place = [[Abbey of Santa Maria la Real de Huelgas|Las Huelgas]], [[Burgos]]
}}
'''Henry I of Castile''' (in Spanish, ''Enrique I'', 14 April 1204<ref>''Anales Toledanos''</ref> – 6 June 1217) was King of [[Kingdom of Castile|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]]).<ref>Previté-Orton, Charles William, ''The shorter Cambridge Medieval History'', (Cambridge University Press, 1952), 828.</ref> He was the brother of [[Berengueia of Castile|Berengueia]] and [[Mafalda of Castile]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Martínez Díez |first=Gonzalo |title=Alfonso VIII, rey de Castilla y Toledo (1158–1214) |year=2007 |publisher=Ediciones Trea, S.L. |location=Gijón |isbn=978-84-9704-327-4 |pages=46–53}}</ref>

In 1211, Henry became heir to the throne when his [[Ferdinand of Castile (died 1211)|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]],<ref>''Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium''</ref> 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 of Castile|Berengaria]] succeeded him, before renouncing the throne in favour of her son [[Ferdinand III of Castile|Ferdinand III]].<ref>Craig Taylor, ''Debating the Hundred Years War'', (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 87.</ref> His body was buried at [[Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas|Las Huelgas monastery]] in Burgos.<ref>''Enrique I, King of Castile'', Theresa M. Vann, '''Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia''', Ed. E. Gerli, (Routledge, 2003), 303.</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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* [[Charles William Previté-Orton]], ''The shorter Cambridge Medieval History'', Cambridge University Press, 1952.
* Taylor, Craig, ''Debating the Hundred Years War'', Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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