See also: Henri, Henri Ier

Henri 1st of Saxony or Henri 1st of Germanic , known as Henri 1st the Bird-catcher because impassioned of hunting for the falcon, (born in 876 - died on July 2nd, 936 with Memleben, Germany) is duke of Saxony since 912 and king of the Francie Orientale (Germanie) of 919 to its death in 936.

Henri was the son of the duke of Saxony Otton {{Ier}} (v. 850 - November 13rd, 912) and of the duchess Hedwige (v. 856 - December 24th, 903, girl of Henri (Popponien).

He marries in 906 Hateburge de Alstadt, which gives him a son, Thankmar (killed into 938 in a civil war against his/her brother Otton 1st), then in 909 Mathilde de Ringelheim ( Sainte Mathilde de Reingelheim ) (890 - March 14th, 968), which gives him five children:

• Gerberge, (913 - May 5th, 969 according to certain sources, or 984 according to others), married to Gislebert de Lotharingie, then with Louis {{IV}} of Overseas, king de France.
• Otton {{II}} of Saxony, (November 23rd, 912 - May 7th, 973), which becomes emperor under the name of Otton {{Ier}} '' Large the ''.
• Hedwige of Saxony, (920 - May 10th, 965, wife of Hugues Large the, duke of the Francs, and mother of Hugues Capet.
• Henri {{Ier}} of Bavaria, (v. 920 - November 1st, 956), duke of Bavaria and of Lotharingie.
• Brunon, (v. 928 - 965), archbishop of Cologne and duke of Lotharingie.

Successor of the king Conrad {{Ier}} of Franconie, it founds the dynasty saxonne and takes again on his account the policy Carolingien S, although it is not resulting directly from this dynasty (Maison of Saxony). He deals with restoring the monarchical authority on the whole of the dukes of Germanie and pushing back the invasions. He takes again the Danish walk in north; he contains the Slaves on the Elba; he intervenes in Bohemia, attaches the Lotharingie into 925. He strengthens the castles of the south of Germanic and reorganizes the army. He is finally victorious Hungarian. He inaugurates the Drang nach Osten . He makes elect his oldest son Otton, king de Germanie, to avoid the division of his kingdom after his death.

His/her daughter Hedwige of Saxony (922 - 965), with her husband Hugues Large the, has as wire Hugues Capet, like Otton and Eudes-Henri, which becomes dukes of Burgundy. Henri 1st of Saxony is thus to be at the origin of the two dynasties which will reign on the Germany and the France during most of the thousand-year-old IIe, since he is the father of Otton {{Ier}}, first emperor of the Holy roman Empire, and the grandfather of Hugues Capet, founder of the dynasty capétienne.

See too

Simple: Henry I the Fowler