Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg

Henry VI
Count of Luxemburg, Durbuy, Laroche and Arlon
Count of Luxemburg and Arlon
Reign	24 December 1281 – 5 June 1288
Predecessor	Henry V
Successor	Henry VII
Born	c. 1240
Died	5 June 1288 (aged 48) Worringen
Spouse	Beatrice d'Avesnes
Issue	Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor Walram, Seigneur de Dourlers, de Thirimont et de Consorre Margaret, Prioress of Marienthal Felicitas, Lady of Gaesbeck Baldwin, Archbishop Elector of Trier
House	Luxembourg
Father	Henry V, Count of Luxembourg
Mother	Margaret of Bar

Henry VI (c. 1240 – 5 June 1288) was count of Luxembourg and Arlon from the death of his father, Henry V the Blond in 1281 until his own death at the battle of Worringen,^[1] seven years later, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry VII.

Life

Henry was the son of Henry V the Blond and Margaret of Bar. His father took part in Saint Louis's crusade against Tunis and he continued this war, being killed alongside three of his brothers at the Battle of Worringen by a knight of John I, Duke of Brabant.

Henry married Beatrice d'Avesnes^[2] (d. 1 March 1321, daughter of Baldwin and granddaughter of Bouchard IV of Avesnes) around 1260–1 and they had three sons, two of whom attained the highest honours and excellence:

• Henry, who would become King of the Romans in 1308 and Holy Roman Emperor (as Henry VII) in 1309, being crowned as such by Pope Clement V in 1312,
• Walram, Seigneur de Dourlers, de Thirimont et de Consorre, died at the siege of Brescia in 1311,
• Margaret, Prioress of Marienthal,
• Felicitas, Lady of Gaesbeck, and
• Baldwin, afterwards Archbishop-Elector of Trier.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg

16. Henry II, Duke of Limburg               8. Henry III, Duke of Limburg                       17. Matilda of Saffenberg               4. Waleran III, Duke of Limburg                             18. Simon I, Count of Saarbrücken               9. Sophia of Saarbrücken                       19. Matilda of Sponheim               2. Henry V, Count of Luxembourg                                   20. Godfrey I, Count of Namur               10. Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg                       21. Ermesinde of Luxembourg               5. Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg                             22. Henry I, Count of Guelders               11. Agnes of Guelders                       23. Agnes of Arnstein               1. Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg                                         24. Reginald II of Bar               12. Theobald I, Count of Bar                       25. Agnes of Champagne               6. Henry II, Count of Bar                             26. Guy of Brienne               13. Ermesinde de Brienne                       27. Petronille Elizabeth of Anseric de Chacenay               3. Margaret of Bar                                   28. Robert I of Dreux               14. Robert II, Count of Dreux                       29. Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine               7. Philippa of Dreux                             30. Ralph I, Lord of Coucy               15. Yolande of Coucy                       31. Agnes of Hainaut

Notes

1. Pit Péporté, Constructing the Middle Ages: Historiography, Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Luxembourg, (Brill, 2011), 148-149.
2. John A. Gades, Luxemburg in the Middle Ages, (Brill, 1951), 102-103.

External links

• Lundy, Darryl. "Henri VI, Comte de Luxembourg". The Peerage., thePeerage.com
• Lundy, Darryl. "Beatrix d'Avesnes". The Peerage., thePeerage.com
• Lundy, Darryl. "Baudoin d'Avesnes". The Peerage., thePeerage.com

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "^{article name needed}". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.