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Personal data Hendrik X "de Trotse" van Beieren 

• He was born in the year 1102.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Hendrik X van Beieren (?, ca. 1108 - Quedlinburg, 20 oktober 1139), bijgenaamd de Trotse, was een zoon van Hendrik de Zwarte en van Wulfhilde van Saksen. Hij volgde in 1126 zijn vader op als hertog van Beieren (als Hendrik X).
  
  Door zijn huwelijk in 1127 met Gertrudis van Supplingenburg (1113-1143), de dochter van Lotharius III, verkreeg hij ook aanspraken op Saksen en Supplingenburg. Hij werd de vader van Hendrik de Leeuw (1129-1195).
  
  Mede door zijn trots, hoogmoed en onwil werd hem in 1138 het hertogdom Beieren ontnomen door de nieuwe Rooms-koning, Koenraad III.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Henry the Proud (c.?1108 – 20 October 1139) was the Duke of Bavaria (Henry X, 1126–1139), Duke of Saxony (Henry II, 1137–1139), and Margrave of Tuscany (1137–1139).
  Life and reign
  
  He was the son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria, and Wulfhilde, daughter of Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony, and thus a member of the Welf family, and, what was quite important, senior heir of the Billung family. His father and mother both died in 1126, and as his elder brother Conrad had entered the church and died before their parents, Henry became duke of Bavaria. He shared the family possessions in Saxony, Bavaria and Swabia with his younger brother, Welf.
  
  In 1127 he was married to Gertrude, the only child of Lothair III, King of Germany, whose marriage and inheritance Henry's father had been promised as reward for his changing to support Lothair in the royal election of 1125. Gertrude was heir of the properties of three Saxon dynasties: the House of Supplinburg, the Brunones, and the House of Northeim. The couple had only one son, Henry the Lion. After the marriage, Henry took part in the warfare between the king and the Hohenstaufen brothers, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (who was Henry's brother-in-law, having been married with his sister Judith), and Conrad, Duke of Franconia, afterwards the German king Conrad III. While engaged in this struggle Henry was also occupied in suppressing a rising in Bavaria, led by Frederick, Count of Bogen, during which both duke and count sought to establish their own candidates in the Bishopric of Regensburg. After a war of devastation, Frederick submitted in 1133, and two years later the Hohenstaufen brothers made their peace with Lothair. In 1136, Henry accompanied his father-in-law to Italy, and taking command of one division of the imperial army marched into southern Italy, devastating the land as he went. Having distinguished himself by his military abilities during this campaign, Henry was appointed as margrave of Tuscany and as Lothair's successor in the Duchy of Saxony. He was also given the former properties of Matilda of Tuscany.
  
  When Lothair died in December 1137, Henry's wealth and position made him a formidable candidate for the German crown, but the same qualities which earned him the cognomen of "the Proud", aroused the jealousy of the princes and so prevented his election. The new king, Conrad III, demanded the imperial insignia which were in Henry's possession, and the duke in return asked for his investiture with the Saxon duchy. But Conrad, who feared his power, refused to assent to this on the pretext that it was unlawful for two duchies to be in one hand. Attempts at a settlement failed, and in July 1138 Henry was deprived of his duchies. In 1139 Henry succeeded in expelling his enemies from Saxony and was preparing to attack Bavaria when he suddenly died in Quedlinburg Abbey. Henry was buried in the Collegiate Church of Königslutter next to his parents-in-law.
  
  His son was Henry the Lion, who was underage. Henry's duchy of Bavaria was given to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria, a half-brother of the new king Conrad. Saxony, which he had attempted to hold but was not officially invested with, was given to Albert the Bear, son of the younger daughter of Magnus, the last Billung duke.

• He died on October 20, 1139 in Quedlinburg, Saksen, Duitsland, he was 37 years old.
• A child of Hendrik IX "de Zwarte" van Beieren and Wulfhilde van Saksen
• This information was last updated on November 15, 2012.

Household of Hendrik X "de Trotse" van Beieren

He is married to Gertrude van Supplinburg.

They got married in the year 1127, he was 25 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Hendrik "de Leeuw" van Beieren  1129-1195 

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