# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-the-fowler
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:02:44.112Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-the-fowler"
name: "Henry the Fowler"
slug: "henry-the-fowler"
description: "He got his nickname fixing bird nets when messengers arrived to tell him he was king. Henry the Fowler turned East Francia into something new — the first medieval German state — by refusing to rule like a Frankish monarch and instead letting the duchies run themselves while he built forts and crushed every outside threat from the Magyars to the Danes."
tagline: "King of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_I_the_Fowler.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "876"
deathDate: "0936-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  popularity:           60.98
  momentum:             15.15823720792665
  historical:           23.65580266666667
  currentAttention:     1.785714285714286
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born into the Saxon Liudolfing line around 876, Henry inherited the duchy in 912 and immediately launched a rebellion against King Conrad I over Thuringian lands. They reconciled in 915, and Conrad — dying three years later — named Henry his successor, seeing him as the only man who could hold the fracturing kingdom together. Elected king in 919, Henry subdued rebellious dukes in Bavaria and Swabia, then took Lotharingia as a vassal in 925. He built fortifications and mobile cavalry across Germany, routed the Magyars at the Battle of Riade in 933, crushed the Slavs at Lenzen in 929, forced Bohemia's duke into submission that same year, and conquered Danish territory in Schleswig by 934. By 935 the kings of West Francia and Upper Burgundy both accepted subordinate alliances. He planned to go to Rome for an imperial coronation but died on 2 July 936, leaving his son Otto a kingdom that hadn't collapsed like the Frankish west.