Individual Details
Herman I, Count of Henneberg
(1224 - 18 Dec 1290)
According to Wikipedia:
Herman I, Count of Henneberg (1224 – 18 December 1290) was the son of Count Poppo VII of Henneberg and his wife, Jutta of Thuringia (born: 1184; died: 6 August 1235 in Schleusingen), the eldest daughter of Landgrave Herman I of Thuringia. This was Boppo's second marriage, and also Jutta's second marriage. Margrave Henry III of Meissen was Herman's half-brother from his mother's side. Herman supported the election of his uncle Henry Raspe as anti-king of the Germans.
Herman founded the "new lordship" around Coburg and Eisenburg, which was inherited by the House of Wettin via his grand-niece Catherine of Henneberg.
Marriage and issue[edit]
In 1249, Herman married with Margaret (died: 26 March 1276), the sister of Count William II of Holland and King of the Germans. They had three children:
Herman (d. 1250)
Jutta (c. 1252 – c. 1312), married Margrave Otto V of Brandenburg-Salzwedel
Poppo (c. 1254 – 1291), who had no issueReferences[edit]
Bernhard Grossmann, Thomas Witter and Günther Wölfing: Auf den Spuren der Henneberger, Verlag Frankenschwelle, 1996, ISBN 978-3-86180-054-5
Georg Gerland (1880), "Hermann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 12, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 124–125
Herman I, Count of Henneberg (1224 – 18 December 1290) was the son of Count Poppo VII of Henneberg and his wife, Jutta of Thuringia (born: 1184; died: 6 August 1235 in Schleusingen), the eldest daughter of Landgrave Herman I of Thuringia. This was Boppo's second marriage, and also Jutta's second marriage. Margrave Henry III of Meissen was Herman's half-brother from his mother's side. Herman supported the election of his uncle Henry Raspe as anti-king of the Germans.
Herman founded the "new lordship" around Coburg and Eisenburg, which was inherited by the House of Wettin via his grand-niece Catherine of Henneberg.
Marriage and issue[edit]
In 1249, Herman married with Margaret (died: 26 March 1276), the sister of Count William II of Holland and King of the Germans. They had three children:
Herman (d. 1250)
Jutta (c. 1252 – c. 1312), married Margrave Otto V of Brandenburg-Salzwedel
Poppo (c. 1254 – 1291), who had no issueReferences[edit]
Bernhard Grossmann, Thomas Witter and Günther Wölfing: Auf den Spuren der Henneberger, Verlag Frankenschwelle, 1996, ISBN 978-3-86180-054-5
Georg Gerland (1880), "Hermann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 12, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 124–125
Events
| Birth | 1224 | ||||
| Marriage | 1249 | Margaret of Holland | |||
| Death | 18 Dec 1290 |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret of Holland (1234 - 1276) |
| Child | Judith of Henneberg-Coburg ( - ) |
| Father | Poppo VII, Count of Henneberg ( - ) |
| Mother | Jutta of Thuringia (1184 - 1235) |
| Sibling | Luitgard of Henneberg (1210 - 1267) |