Henri de Dreux

Representation of Henri de Dreux on a stained glass window of the Notre-Dame de Reims cathedral.

Henri de Dreux[1] (1193–1240) was Archbishop of Reims from 1227 to 1240. He is commemorated by a window in Reims Cathedral.

He was an active builder, but his local taxation provoked a revolt in 1233.[2]

He was a son of Robert II of Dreux[3] and Yolande de Coucy.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ Henri de Braine, Henri de Braisne, Henry of Dreux.
  2. ^ [1], French language.
  3. ^ A History of the Crusades, Vol. 2, ed. Kenneth M. Setton, Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard, (University of Wisconsin Press, 1969), 836.
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