Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry VII (1278/79–1313), son of Count Henry VI of Luxembourg and Beatrice d'Avesnes, grew up at the French court and ruled Luxembourg from 1288. After King Albert I was murdered in 1308, his brother Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier, won over the electors, and Henry was elected King of the Romans on 27 November 1308 and crowned at Aachen in 1309.

He crossed the Alps in 1310 to revive imperial authority in Italy. He married his son John to Elizabeth of Bohemia, winning Bohemia's crown for his dynasty, and was crowned emperor in Rome on 29 June 1312, the first since Frederick II. He died at Buonconvento on 24 August 1313.