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Henry of Almain (
2 November 1235 Haughley Castle –
13 March 1271 Viterbo), so called because of his father's German connections, was the son of
Richard, Earl of Cornwall and
Isabel Marshal, and king of the Romans.
As a nephew of both
Henry III and
Simon de Montfort he wavered between the two at the beginning of the
Barons' War, but finally took the royalist side and was among the prisoners taken by Montfort at the
Battle of Lewes (1264), was held at
Wallingford Castle and later released.
In
1268 he took the cross with his cousin Edward, who, however, sent him back from
Sicily to pacify the unruly province of
Gascony. Henry took the land route with
Louis IX of France and
Charles I of Sicily.
While attending mass at
Viterbo on
13 March 1271), he was attacked by his cousins
Guy and
Simon the younger de Montfort, sons of
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and killed in revenge for the brutal deaths of their father and older brother at the
Battle of Evesham. The deed is mentioned by
Dante Alighieri, who took it upon himself to place Guy de Montfort in the seventh circle of hell in his masterpiece,
The Divine Comedy, which was written at least 40 years after Henry's death.
Henry was buried at
Hailes Abbey.
Marriage
Henry was married to Constance of Montcada (d.
1299), daughter of
Gaston VII of Montcada, Viscount of Béarn, on
5 May 1269 at
Windsor Castle. No children came of this union. And thus his half brother,
Edmund, became the heir apparent of their father.
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