Henry II von Sonneberg

Henry II of Sonnenberg ( * before 1249, † 1288) was from the family of Sonneberg and was the founder of the monastery Sonnenfeld.

With the death of Duke Otto II of Meranien on June 19, 1248 at the castle Niesten went out the imperial principality, in whose service the gentlemen of Sonneberg fiefs had managed in the Coburg and Sonneberg. Thus, Henry II was given the task, the rule Sonnenberg to reposition. 1252 and in 1260 he acquired from the Benedictine Abbey Saalfeld extensive properties in Sonneberg and Coburg surrounding areas.

Henry II founded with his wife Gwendolyn in 1260 the monastery Sonnfeld and equipped it with goods from his possession. He finds himself in 1279 in addition to other persons associated with the solar fields monastery among the witnesses to the foundation charter of the monastery Himmelcron, which one assumes that the first nuns of the monastery came from Sonnenfeld.