Henry I of Castile

Henry I
King of Castile and Toledo
Reign	5 October 1214 – 6 June 1217
Predecessor	Alfonso VIII
Successor	Berengaria
Born	(1204-04-14)14 April 1204 Valladolid
Died	6 June 1217(1217-06-06) (aged 13) Palencia
Burial	Las Huelgas, Burgos
Consort	Mafalda of Portugal
House	House of Burgundy
Father	Alfonso VIII of Castile
Mother	Eleanor of England
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Henry I of Castile (14 April 1204^[1] – 6 June 1217) was king of Castile. He was the son of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine).^[2]

In 1211 Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Ferdinand suddenly died.

When his father died in 1214 Henry was just 10 years old so the regency was assumed by Henry's older sister Berengaria of Castile,^[3] wife of Alfonso IX of Leon.

In 1215 Henry married Mafalda of Portugal, daughter of Sancho I of Portugal. As he was very young, the marriage was not consummated, and it was dissolved in 1216 by Pope Innocent III on grounds of consanguinity. In the same year, Henry became betrothed to his second cousin Sancha, heiress of León.^[4]

Henry died in Palencia in 1217 at the age of 13, killed by a tile coming off a roof. His sister Berengaria succeeded him, before renouncing the throne in favour of her son Ferdinand III.^[5] His body was interred at Las Huelgas monastery in Burgos.^[6]

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• Charles William Previté-Orton, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge University Press, 1952.
• Taylor, Craig, Debating the Hundred Years War, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Monarchs of Castile
House of Jiménez	Ferdinand I "the Magno" Sancho II "the Strong" Alfonso VI "the Brave" Urraca "the Reckless"
House of Burgundy	Alfonso VII "the Emperor" Sancho III "the Desired" Alfonso VIII "the Noble" Henry I Berengaria Ferdinand III "the Saint" Alfonso X "the Wise" Sancho IV "the Brave" Ferdinand IV "the Summoned" Alfonso XI "the Avenger" Peter "the Cruel"
House of Trastámara	Henry II "the Fracticidal" John I Henry III "the Mourner" John II Henry IV "the Impotent" Isabella I & Ferdinand V "the Catholic Monarchs" Joanna "the Mad" & Philip I "the Handsome"
House of Habsburg	Philip I "the Handsome" & Joanna "the Mad" Charles I "the Emperor" Philip II "the Prudent" Philip III "the Devotional" Philip IV "the Stunned" Charles II "the Bewitched"