Heinrich
(Heinrich I)
"der Pilger, Graf von Mecklenburg"
von Mecklenburg
formerly Mecklenburg
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Brother of
Elizabeth (Mecklenburg) von Mecklenburg
Husband of
Anastasia (Greif) von Pommern
— married
1259 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Luitgard (Mecklenburg) von Mecklenburg, Heinrich (Mecklenburg) von Mecklenburg, Johann Mecklenburg and Richsa Werle Gustrow
Died
at about age 72
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Heinrich I von Mecklenburg was probably the eldest son of Johann I, Graf von Mecklenburg, and his wife Luitgard von Henneberg. He was perhaps born about 1230, [1] as he and his brother Albrecht are witnessing documents from 25 April 1247.[2]
He succeeded his father as Graf (comes) von Mecklenburg on 1 August 1264 ruling jointly with his brother Albrecht, but Albrecht died in May 1265 and Heinrich ruled alone.[1]
He went on a crusade against the pagan Litthauer in Livonia in 1270 and then undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1271, but was captured by Saracens on the way, and was imprisoned in Cairo.[3]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wigger, Friedrich, 1885. 'Stammtafeln des Großherzoglichen Hauses von Mecklenburg'. In: Jahrbücher des Vereins für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Band 50. S 111-326. Digital image. Dokumentenserver der Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. http://mvdok.lbmv.de/mjbrenderer?id=mvdok_document_00002930 : viewed 24 March 2017.
- ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch, 786-1900, Volume 1 (Mecklenburg: Verein für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, 1863). p. 562 (charter no. 592). Digital image Google Play Ebook https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=3XoKAAAAIAAJ&hl=en_GB : viewed 18 September 2018.
- ↑ Fromm, Ludwig, 'Heinrich I. der Pilger, Fürst von Mecklenburg' in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 11 (1880), S. 541, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource, URL: https://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=ADB:Heinrich_I._(F%C3%BCrst_von_Mecklenburg)&oldid=2487235 (accessed 18 September 2018)
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K. Stromsted
Mecklenburg-10 and Lord of Mecklenburg-2 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, spouse, son.
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