Henry I of Castile

Henry I
King of Castile and Toledo
Reign	5 October 1214–6 June 1217 (&100000000000000020000002 years, &10000000000000244000000244 days)
Predecessor	Alfonso VIII
Successor	Berengaria
Consort	Mafalda of Portugal
House	House of Burgundy
Father	Alfonso VIII of Castile
Mother	Eleanor of England
Born	14 April 1204(1204-04-14) Valladolid
Died	6 June 1217(1217-06-06) (aged 13) Palencia
Burial	Las Huelgas, Burgos
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Henry I of Castile (14 April 1204 – 6 June 1217) was king of Castile. He was the son of Alfonso VIII of Castile and his wife Eleanor Plantagenet, (daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine).

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, wife of Alfonso IX of Leon.

In 1215, Henry married Mafalda of Portugal, daughter of Sancho I of Portugal. As he was very young, the marriage was not consummated, and it was dissolved in 1216.

Henry I 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 favor of her son Ferdinand III.

References

• Previté-Orton, Charles William, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge University Press, 1952.
• Taylor, Craig, Debating the Hundred Years War, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Alfonso VIII	King of Castile 1214–1217	Succeeded by Berengaria