Henry I of Zweibrücken (, ?–1222) was the first count of the

County of Zweibrücken The County of Zweibrücken () was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire named for Zweibrücken in which is now situated in the Rhineland-Palatinate. It was created sometime between 1182 and 1190 from an inheritance division of the county of Saarbr ...

founded in 1182 as the result of an inheritance division. He ruled until 1222.

Life

Henry was the younger of two sons of the Count of

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, Simon I, to whose estate Zweibrücken Castle belonged. Whilst the older son was given Saarbrücken, the younger son received the eastern part of the region with Zweibrücken and the

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fiefdoms of Lindres,

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and Marimont. In addition there were estates near

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that belonged to the County of Zweibrücken. Henry is first recorded in 1196 in a treaty made with Emperor Henry VI. In this deed, he transferred his rights over the inherited ''

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ei'' of Dirmstein to the empire. In 1198, he concluded a deed of exchange with Abbot Wernher of Hornbach Abbey, in which he acquired the hills of "Gutinberg" and the "Ruprechtisberg". Lemberg Castle was built on the former and Ruppertstein Castle on the latter. In the decades that followed, Henry is found variously as a signatory or witness to deeds, for example in 1211 in the confirmation of town rights on the

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by Emperor

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. In 1224 he accompanied

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for negotiations with the French king, Louis VIII. In his coat of arms Count Henry adopted a lion in recognition of his Saarbrücken origins; however, it was red with a blue tongue on a gold field, as is the case today in the town coat of arms of

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Family

Henry married Hedwig of Lorraine, the daughter of Duke

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. She had two children. Their daughter, Agnes, married Count Louis of

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, and their son,

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, nicknamed the "Henry the Argumentative" (''Heinrich der Streitbare''), was his successor as Count of Zweibrücken. With the foundation of the county the Zweibrücken comital dynasty of the Walramides began.

Literature

* Versuch einer geographisch-historisch-statistischen Beschreibung des kön. bay. Rheinkreises dermalen Pfalz, Michael Frey, 1837. {{DEFAULTSORT:Henry 01 #Zweibrucken Counts of the Holy Roman Empire 12th-century births 1228 deaths 12th-century German nobility 13th-century German nobility People from Zweibrücken