Henry of Stolberg

Count Henry of Stolberg ( born January 2, 1509 Castle Stolberg (Harz), † November 12, 1572 ) was a German Regent.

Life

Heinrich is the fourth son of the reigning Count Botho zu Stolberg and his wife Anna née Countess of Eppstein - Königstein. His eldest sister is Juliana of Stolberg, the matriarch of the house of Orange-Nassau. His nickname Heinrich he received in memory of his uncle, Count Henry the Younger of Stolberg, whose body was brought Coming a day after his birth from Cologne to Stolberg.

To form Heinrich stayed several years at the court of his grandfather, Count Eberhard von Eppstein in Königstein im Taunus. Among his teachers was one among others the humanist Johann Caesarius of Cologne.

From November 1525 Heinrich studied at the University of Leipzig, where he was accompanied by Tilemann Plathner. He succeeded his father to reserve for Heinrich canons in Cologne and Mainz. As a Domherrenstelle 1538 in Halberstadt was released, he returned to the vicinity of his home and began the Good Dardesheim the provost set domesticated. Here he received in 1542 the news that the Domdechantenstelle the Bishopric of Cologne, he was appointed after the death of Friedrich von Beichlingen. So Henry moved back to the Rhine. There he soon found that the Archbishop Hermann von Wied had joined the thought of the Reformation, which he himself actively supported. Together with the Archbishop Count Henry was dismissed by the pope his church office.

Progeny

From his marriage with Elisabeth ( † 1578), daughter of Count Hector I. von Gleichen, whom he had married on November 3, 1556 in Quedlinburg, the following children were born:

• Botho (1559-1583)
• Georg Ludwig (1562-1618)
• Anna (1565-1601), as Anna III. Abbess of Quedlinburg
• Christoph (1567-1638)