Henry I of Castile (14 April 1204 – 6 June 1217) was king of Castile. He was the son of

Alfonso VIII of Castile Alfonso VIII (11 November 11555 October 1214), called the Noble (''El Noble'') or the one of Las Navas (''el de las Navas''), was King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army a ...

and

Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile Eleanor of England ( es, Leonor; – 31 October 1214), was Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile. She was the sixth child and second daughter of Henry II, King of England, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Early life and f ...

(daughter of

Henry II of England Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (french: link=no, Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress, or Henry Plantagenet, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189, and as such, was the first Angevin kin ...

and

Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor ( – 1 April 1204; french: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, ) was Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, List of English royal consorts, Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of Henry II of England, King Henry I ...

). He was the brother of Berenguela and

Mafalda of Castile Mafalda de Castilla (1191—1204) was an Infanta of Castile and daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England and sister of Henry I of Castile and Berenguela of Castile. She would have been married to Ferdinand of León, but she di ...

. 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 Berengaria ( Castilian: ''Berenguela''; nicknamed the Great (Castilian: la Grande); 1179 or 1180 – 8 November 1246) was reigning Queen of CastileThe full title was ''Regina Castelle et Toleti'' (Queen of Castille and Toledo). for a brief tim ...

, wife of Alfonso IX of Leon. In 1215, Henry married Mafalda of Portugal, daughter of

Sancho I of Portugal Sancho I of Portugal (), nicknamed "the Populator" ( pt, "o Povoador"), King of Portugal (Coimbra, 11 November 115426 March 1211) was the second but only surviving legitimate son and fifth child of Afonso I of Portugal by his wife, Maud of Savoy. ...

. As he was very young, the marriage was not consummated, and it was dissolved in 1216 by

Pope Innocent III Pope Innocent III ( la, Innocentius III; 1160 or 1161 – 16 July 1216), born Lotario dei Conti di Segni (anglicized as Lothar of Segni), was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 to his death in 16 ...

on grounds of consanguinity. In the same year, Henry became betrothed to his second cousin Sancha, heiress of León. 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. His body was buried at Las Huelgas monastery in Burgos.''Enrique I, King of Castile'', Theresa M. Vann, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, Ed. E. Gerli, (Routledge, 2003), 303.

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Charles William Previté-Orton Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

, ''The shorter Cambridge Medieval History'', Cambridge University Press, 1952. * Taylor, Craig, ''Debating the Hundred Years War'', Cambridge University Press, 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Henry 01 of Castile Castilian House of Burgundy Rulers who died as children Medieval child rulers 1204 births 1217 deaths 13th-century Castilian monarchs Accidental deaths in Spain Burials at the Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas Spanish people of English descent Castilian infantes