Henry of Bohemia
Henry of Carinthia ( Jindřich Korutanský, * 1265 ( other sources say 1273 or 1280 ); † April 2, 1335 in Castle Tyrol, Tyrol) was a prince from the Meinhardiner Dynasty. He was from 1307 to 1310 King of Bohemia and Margrave of Moravia, and titular King of Poland. In addition, Henry was from 1310 until his death, when Henry VI. Duke of Carinthia and Carniola as well as Count of Tyrol.
Life
Henry was the son of the Carinthian Duke Meinhard II of Gorizia - Tyrol and Elisabeth of Bavaria, daughter of Duke Otto II as Henry VI. he took over after the death of his father along with his brothers as regent in Carinthia and Tyrol. Because he supported his brother- Habsburg Albert I at the Battle of Göllheim 1298, he received from this fiefdom.
After the murder of Wenceslas ( 1306) and the death of Albrecht's son Rudolf ( 1307 ) he was elected on August 15, 1307, against the resistance of the Habsburg King of Bohemia ( founded by his inheritance rights as a result of his marriage to Anna, the eldest sister of King Wenceslas III. Bohemia ).
In Bohemia, his reign soon called forth resistance, his opponents took 1309/10 Contact Roman-German King Henry VII on. In July 1310 Henry of Carinthia his fief was removed and the end of August 1310, the son of Henry VII, John of Luxembourg, invested with the kingdom. End of the year occupied troops under leadership of John of Bohemia, Henry of Carinthia had to Prague and eventually withdraw completely from Bohemia.
By a compromise with the Habsburgs ( 1311 cession of Sann Tales of the Habsburg Styria) he reached that occupied areas were cleared in Carinthia. Despite major efforts, he failed to acquire possessions of the bishopric of Bamberg, in Carinthia, as they were pledged to Henry VII. However, he managed to push back the suzerainty of Trent and Brixen bishops in Tyrol.
In the German throne dispute between Frederick the Fair and Louis the Bavarian mediated Heinrich 1325 compensation. After Ludwig the Bavarian him had 1330 pledged that his daughters are likely to follow him on his claim to the imperial fief what this but secretly revoked in a secret treaty with the Habsburgs in the same year, Habsburg was able to take the Duchy of Carinthia in possession after his death in 1335.
The second part of the country, Tyrol, but remained as warranted in the hands of the daughter of Henry, Margaret, after the stands had the decided unanimously.
He was married to Anna of Bohemia and his first wife Adelheid of Brunswick (second wife) and Beatrice of Savoy (third wife).
Henry of Carinthia was buried in the collegiate church founded by his father Meinhard II monastery of Stams in Tyrol.