Henry I, Count of Tyrol

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Henry I
Count of Tyrol
Died(1190-06-14)14 June 1190
Noble family House of Tyrol
Spouse(s) Agnes of Wangen
Father Berthold I, Count of Tyrol
Mother Agnes(?) of Ortenburg

Henry I (died 14 June 1190) was Count of Tyrol from 1180 until his death.

County of Tyrol former county of Austria

The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. Originally a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of the Counts of Tyrol, it was inherited by the Counts of Gorizia in 1253 and finally fell to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1363. In 1804 the Princely County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised Prince-Bishoprics of Trent and Brixen, became a crown land of the Austrian Empire in 1804 and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary.

Henry was a younger son of Count Berthold I of Tyrol and his wife Agnes(?), a daughter of Count Otto I of Ortenburg. In 1180 he succeeded his father as Tyrolean count, jointly with his brother Berthold II. After Berthold II died in 1181, Henry I ruled alone.

Berthold I was Count of Tyrol from about 1165 until his death.

Counts of Ortenburg noble family

The Counts of Ortenburg were a comital family in the mediaeval Duchy of Carinthia. Though they had roots in Bavarian nobility, an affiliation with the Imperial Counts of Ortenburg, a branch line of the Rhenish Franconian House of Sponheim, is not established.

Henry married Agnes, a daughter of Lord Adalbero of Wangen and sister of Bishop Frederick of Trent. The couple had the following children:

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Henry I, Count of Tyrol
House of Tyrol
 Died: 14 June 1190
Preceded by
Berthold I
Count of Tyrol
1180-1190
Succeeded by
Albert IV

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