Henry Charles Otto HOHENSTAUFEN ²²⁹¹

   Another name for Henry was Karl Otto HOHENSTAUFEN.

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  General Notes:

named after Henry III of England, his uncle; appointed Governor of Sicily and promised to become King of Jerusalem after his father died, but he, too, died within three years and was never crowned. Betrothed to many of Pope Innocent IV's nieces, but never married any.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Henry appeared in the household of Frederick II HOHENSTAUFEN Holy Roman Emperor in the Hohenstaufen dynasty census. The Hohenstaufen dynasty, also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of German origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254. The dynasty's most prominent rulers \endash Frederick I (1155), Henry VI (1191) and Frederick II (1220) \endash ascended the imperial throne and also reigned over Italy and Burgundy. The non-contemporary name of 'Hohenstaufen' is derived from the family's Hohenstaufen Castle on Hohenstaufen mountain at the northern fringes of the Swabian Jura, near the town of Göppingen. Under Hohenstaufen rule, the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent from 1155 to 1268. This event was shared from Frederick II HOHENSTAUFEN Holy Roman Emperor who also shared it with Agnes VON HOHENSTAUFEN (1237-1237), Heinrich Jordan HOHENSTAUFEN (1236-1236), Henry Charles Otto HOHENSTAUFEN (1238-1253), and Margaret HOHENSTAUFEN of Sicily (1241-1270).