Henry I of Navarre

Henry I of thickness (French: Henri le Gros, Spanish: Enrique el Gordo ) (c. 1244; † July 1274 ) was (as Henry III. ) Count of Champagne and Brie and King of Navarre from 1270 to 1274 out of the house Blois.

He was the youngest son of Count Theobald IV of Champagne, which was in 1234 as Theobald I King of Navarre, and Margaret of Bourbon. He was apanagiert with Rosnay and surrounding areas as a county in 1270 and took over the regency in Navarre, after his older brother Theobald II ( Theobald V of Champagne) set off for the seventh crusade. When he died erbenlos there in December 1270 succeeded him as King Henry of Navarre and Count of Champagne.

His proclamation in Pamplona took place in March 1271, his coronation in May 1273rd completely fell after a short reign, in which Navarre under the influence of France, he died in July 1274, according to tradition because of his own corpulence. After his death broke in Pamplona uprisings against the French, after which his widow and heiress were forced to flee to the court of the French king.

With his death extinguished the male line of the Counts of Champagne and King of Navarre.

Henry married in 1269 in Melun Blanche d' Artois († May 2, 1302 ), daughter of Count Robert I and niece of the French king Louis IX .. His only legitimate child, his daughter Joanna I became his successor. Your marriage in 1284, Philip IV, king of France in the same year, united the Kingdom of Navarre and France and made the Champagne part of the French royal domain.

In Dante's Divine Comedy occurs Heinrichs spirit outside the gates of Purgatory, where he is along with a number of other European monarchs of the 13th century. He is known not directly called, but merely as " the friendly face " and " father of the Pest of France ."