. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. II E N ( 1J> ) HEN himself d^uke of Saxony, ami bore prent sway inthe empire, when tlie emperor Conr;!d I., on liisdeath-bed, sent him the insignia of his olTice ;and an assembly of the principal nobles con-firmed him in the imperial dignity in 919. Misfirst care was to restore concord among theprinces of Germany, in which he next gave a complete defeat to the Hun-garians who had invaded his dominions
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. II E N ( 1J> ) HEN himself d^uke of Saxony, ami bore prent sway inthe empire, when tlie emperor Conr;!d I., on liisdeath-bed, sent him the insignia of his olTice ;and an assembly of the principal nobles con-firmed him in the imperial dignity in 919. Misfirst care was to restore concord among theprinces of Germany, in which he next gave a complete defeat to the Hun-garians who had invaded his dominions; andthen, marching northwards against the Vandals,he drove them out of Saxony, and exterminatedthe whole nation on the shore of the was victorious over the Danes, Sclavonians,and Bohemians, and took prisoner Winceslaus,the king of the latter nation, whom, alter a longcaptivity, he restored to his throne. In thetreaty which he entered into at Bonn in 922,with Charles the Simple, he set aside the pre-tensions of the house of France to tlie that prince was deposed by his nobles,Henry espoused his cause. The chief purposeof his interference seems, howeve
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