Henry X Rumpold

X. Henry of Glogau ( Heinrich X. Rumpold; * 1388/96; † January 18, 1423 in Flensburg ) was from 1413 to 1418 together with his brothers Henry IX. and Wenceslas Duke of (semi) Glogau, from 1418 onwards, together with Heinrich IX. Duke of (semi) Glogau and Frey city. He was also from 1420 Governor of Upper Lusatia. He came to the Silesian Piast branch of Glogau.

Life

X. Henry 's parents were Henry VIII and Catherine ( † 1420 ), daughter of the Duke of Opole Władysław II

When the father's death in 1397 and his brothers Johann Heinrich X. I, Henry IX were. Wenzel and still a minor. Together with her ​​mother, she took over the regency over the undivided inheritance of their father, but were initially under the tutelage of her uncle Rupert I of Legnica. After 1403, the oldest brother John I came of age, he assumed the regency at the same time for his younger brothers. 1413 the area of Sagan was spun for Johann I, where he had to renounce the succession in Glogau share at the same time. This managed from 1413 Heinrich X. and his brothers Henry IX. and Wenzel to 1418 first together. When performed in this year inheritance, the two Henrys, received the area of ( semi or ducal ) Glogau and Frey city, while Wenzel also received Crossen and Schwiebus next Glogau.

Henry X. was in the service of the Bohemian King Sigismund, whom he assisted in the fight against the Hussites. Together with his brothers he paid homage to King Sigismund in 1420 in Breslau. In the same year he was appointed by him as Governor of Upper Lusatia. As his envoy, he died on a trip in 1423 in Flensburg. X. Henry was not married and had no children. Its share of the Glogau area inherited his eponymous brother Henry IX.