Henry the Lion of Saxony, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria^[1]

1129 - 1195  (66 years)

• Name	Henry the Lion of Saxony
  Suffix	Duke of Saxony and Bavaria
  Birth	1129
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	1142
  	Duke of Saxony
  	Duke of Saxony , as «b»Henry III«/b», from 1142, held until 1180
  Acceded	1156
  	Duke of Bavaria
  	Duke of Bavaria , as «b»Henry XII«/b», from 1156, held until 1180
  Death	6 Aug 1195
  Notes	Acceded: 1156 Added to his possesions the counties of Mecklenburg and Luneburg, by conquest from the Sclaves. He neglected his duty to Emperor Barbarossa and was publicly proscribed in 1180. He was obliged to absent himself from Germany for three years and he repaired to England with his second consort Maud. http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01509 Brian Tompsett, University of Hull, England, has him as Henry V the Lion of Saxony Wikipedia has hi as Henry the Lion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Lion http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/German_monarchs_family_tree.jpg The Henry The Lion Bible is preserved in near mint condition from the year 1170; it is located in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , a town in Lower Saxony.
  Person ID	I6690	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2012

  
  

  Father	Henry IV (X) the Proud of Brunswick, Duke of Brawnsweig,   b. Abt 1100   d. 20 Oct 1139, Quedlinburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (Age ~ 39 years)
  Mother	Gertrude of Saxony (of Süpplingenburg),   b. 18 Apr 1115   d. 18 Apr 1143 (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	29 May 1127
  Family ID	F2470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Clementina of Zähringen, Duchess consort of Bavaria and Saxony   d. 1175
  Marriage	Abt 1150
  Divorce	23 Nov 1162
  Divorced	23 Nov 1162	Constance
  Children	1. Henry   d. Young   2. Gertrude of Bavaria,   b. Abt 1155   d. 1 Jul 1196 (Age ~ 41 years)   3. Richenza,   b. Abt 1157   d. 1167 (Age ~ 10 years)
  Family ID	F3506	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2012

  
  

  Family 2	Matilda (Maud) Plantagenet,   b. Jun 1156, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England d. 28 Jun 1189, Brunswick, Niedersachsen, Germany (Age ~ 33 years)
  Marriage	1 Feb 1168	Minden Cathedral, Saxony, Germany
  Children	1. Henry V of Zelle Longus, Count Palatine of Rhine,   b. 1173   d. 28 Apr 1227 (Age 54 years)   2. Otto IV of Brunswick, Holy Roman Emperor,   b. Abt 1183   d. 19 May 1218 (Age ~ 35 years)   3. William of Winchester, Lord of Lüneburg,   b. 11 Apr 1184, Winchester, England d. 13 Dec 1213 (Age 29 years)
  Family ID	F3507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2006

  
  

• Photos

  Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).