1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Henry I. of Castile

21290761911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13 — Henry I. of Castile

HENRY I. (1214–1217), king of Castile, son of Alphonso VIII. of Castile, and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of Henry II. of England, after whom he was named, was born about 1207. He was killed, while still a boy, by the fall of a tile from a roof.