Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor from Historical Figures 1000s and what is the personality traits.
INFJ (XwX)
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor personality type is INFJ, the "Counselor", one of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types. His grandmother was the daughter of a well-known Italian knight, the "Genoese chieftain" Cassano del Savio and his wife Beatrice di Toscana. His father was Count of Savoy from 1253 to 1272 and from 1273 to 1329; he was also Count of Geneva from 1316 to 1330. In 1274, when Amadeus was four or five years old, his mother died and his father married Bonne of Artois, the mother of Philip III of France. It is said that their marriage was a happy one. Amadeus was still in France when his father died in 1272. He returned to his father's court in 1273, becoming Count of Savoy in his own right. When his father died in 1329, the County of Savoy was left to Amadeus' younger brother Eudes. However, the two brothers could not agree on how to handle the inheritance and a long quarrel ensued through which a portion of the county was seized by Amadeus' brother-in-law, Pierre I of Beaufort.
Henry II (6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry the Exuberant, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024, and was the last ruler of the Ottonian line. As Duke of Bavaria, appointed in 995, Henry became King of the Romans following the sudden death of his second cousin, Emperor Otto III in 1002, was made King of Italy in 1004, and crowned emperor by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014.
The rule of Henry II has been characterized as a period of centralized authority throughout the Holy Roman Empire. He consolidated his power by cultivating personal and political ties with the Catholic Church. He greatly expanded the Ottonian dynasty's custom of employing clerics as counter-weights against secular nobles. Through donations to the Church and the establishment of new dioceses, Henry strengthened imperial rule across the Empire and increased control over ecclesiastical affairs. He is the only medieval German monarch to ever have been honoured a saint.
