Henry IX, Count of Waldeck

Henry IX. of Waldeck- Wildungen (* December 10, 1531; † October 3, 1577 in advertising ) was the fourth son of Count Philip IV (* 1493, † 1574 ) and his first wife, Margarethe von Ostfriesland (* 1500, † 1537 ) and was four months reigning Count of Waldeck- Wildungen.

Henry succeeded his childless died on June 7, 1577 Brother Daniel (* 1530, † 1577) as Count of Waldeck- Wildungen. Although he was the seventh reigning Count by the name of Henry, but because it is in the house of Waldeck previously also not ruling Henry II and Henry III. had given, he is in the counting of the house mostly as Henry IX. referred to.

1562 to 1563 he took on the Protestant side in the First Huguenot War part in France. After his return he married on 19 December 1563 Korbach the Protestant Baroness Anna of four mouth Nordenbeck (* 1538, † 1599), which brought the rule Nordenbeck into the marriage. The marriage remained childless.

Anna's step- cousin, the female succession unrecognized, raided and occupied only a little later the castle Nordenbeck which formed the center of Anna's possession. Henry had to put on a counter-attack, lack of money first. At the final parade but his horse bolted and he died on stirrups hanging in front of his wife Anna in October 1577. Nordenbeck Anna was only in 1580 after a successful appeal to the Imperial Court of Justice back.

Heinrich's successor as Count of Waldeck- Wildungen was his nephew Günther ( born June 29, 1557 † May 23, 1585 ), son of the late Samuel von Waldeck already in 1570.