Henry the Fowler
King of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)
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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.
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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 Boh…
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