Henry

Henry (VII) (born 1211, Sicily—died Feb. 12, 1242, Martirano, Calabria, Kingdom of Sicily) was a German king (from 1220), son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II. After apparently spending most of his youth in Germany, Henry was crowned king of Sicily in 1212 and made duke of Swabia in 1216. Pope Innocent III had favoured his coronation as king of Sicily in the hope that the union of Sicily with the empire would be...