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Personal data Hendrik "de Vette" van Northeim 

• He was born in the year 1060.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Hendrik van Northeim , bijg. de Vette, (ca. 1060 - 10 april 1101) was een Friese graaf van Saksische herkomst.
  
  Hendrik was een zoon van Otto I van Northeim. In zijn jonge jaren volgde hij de politiek van zijn vader, die een van de leiders was van het verzet tegen Hendrik IV (keizer). Nadat zijn vader in 1086 was overleden, koos Hendrik al snel de kant van de keizer. Hendrik stichtte het klooster bij Bursefelde (bij Hann. Münden) als familieklooster. Hij volgde zijn vader op als graaf van Northeim, de Rittigau (bij Northeim (stad)) en Eichsfeld. Tevens was hij heer van het Werradal en voogd van de kloosters van Bursefelde en Helmarshausen (bij Bad Karlshafen).
  
  Hendrik was zwager van Egbert II van Meißen. Egbert verloor al zijn titels omdat hij volhardde in de opstand tegen keizer Hendrik. Het markgraafschap van Friesland werd door de keizer aan bisschop Koenraad van Zwaben (bisschop) van Utrecht toegewezen. Toen die in 1099 werd vermoord claimde Hendrik de functie, op grond van de aanspraken van zijn vrouw. Dit werd door de keizer gehonoreerd en Hendrik werd benoemd tot markgraaf van Friesland. Toen Hendrik naar Friesland trok, werd hij daar gedood terwijl zijn vrouw ternauwernood ontkwam. Hierover bestaan meerdere lezingen:
  
  Hendrik is gesneuveld in een veldslag bij Norden.
  Hendrik werd feestelijk ontvangen in Staveren door een gezelschap van Utrechtse ministerialen en voorname inwoners van Friesland en Staveren. Tijdens de ontvangst probeerden ze Hendrik te vermoorden. De aanslag mislukte en Hendrik en zijn vrouw vluchtten per schip naar Deventer maar ze werden door de Friezen ingehaald. Hendrik werd neergestoken en vervolgens door de Friezen overboord geworpen, zodat hij verdronk.
  
  Hendrik is begraven in de abdij van Bursefelde.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Henry the Fat (c.?1055 – 1101), also known as Henry of Nordheim or Northeim, was from 1083 Count in Rittigau and Eichsfeld and from 1099 the Margrave of Frisia. He was the eldest son of Otto of Nordheim and Richenza of Swabia.
  
  He was, by his patrimony of Rittigau and Eichsfeld, one of the most influential Saxon princes of his age. In 1086 he married the widow Gertrude of Brunswick and united the lands of the counts of Katlenburg and the Brunonen to the Nordheimer Länderei. From the counts of Bilstein he inherited parts of the Werra valley, where he became the sole landholder. Further, he was the Vogt of Helmarshausen and founded a Benedictine monastery at Bursfelde in 1093.
  
  During the civil wars of the early 1080s Henry sided with the anti-king Herman of Salm, to whom he was related by marriage. In 1086 he and his brothers changed sides to support the Emperor Henry IV.
  
  Henry's wife, Gertrude, was the only sister of Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen, whose own marriage remained childless. By the right of inheritance Henry stood to receive Egbert's counties in Frisia on the margrave's death in 1090, though Meissen was granted by the emperor to another Henry. These Frisian counties, however, had been annexed from Egbert during the latter's rebellion in 1089 and were being administered by Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht. When Conrad was assassinated in 1099 the Emperor finally bestowed the counties on Henry. He immediately tried to regulate Frisian shipping and ignored the privileges granted to the town of Staveren. The Church, feeling threatened by Henry, allied with the merchant class and the townsmen. Though they received him on seeming friendly terms, he perceived their threat and tried to flee by boat. His ship was attacked at sea and sunk, though his wife escaped the assault. The day of his death is not known precisely, but he was buried in Bursfelde on 10 April 1101.
  
  Henry's only son, Otto III of Nordheim inherited his patrimony, while his daughter Richenza inherited the Katlenburger and Brunonen territories and united them to the House of Welf by her marriage to the future Emperor Lothair II. Henry's youngest daughter, Gertrude (c. 1090 – bef. 1165), was heiress of Bentheim and Rheineck. She married first Siegfried I of Weimar-Orlamünde and then Otto I of Salm. Henry's widow, Gertrude, married the aforementioned Henry, Margrave of Meissen.

• He died on April 10, 1101, he was 41 years old.
• A child of Otto I van Northeim and Richenza van Zwaben
• This information was last updated on November 7, 2012.

Household of Hendrik "de Vette" van Northeim

He is married to Gertrudis van Braunschweig.

They got married.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Otto II van Northeim  -1116
2. Richenza van Northeim  1087-1141 
3. Gertrudis van Northeim  1090-< 1165 

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