Germanic Monarch. He was the eldest son of Heinrich VI of Luxembourg and Beatrix d'Avesnes. After his fathers death in 1288 in the Battle of Worringen he succeeded him as Count of Luxembourg. Together with his brother he spent some time at the french court where they received the knighthood. In 1292 he signed a peace contract with Brabant and renounced his rights on Limburg. In June he married Margaret of Brabant who bore him three children. With his good connections to the French court and to the pope he was able to obtain the nomination to the see of Trier for his brother in 1307. When King Albrecht I was murdered by his nephew, the two prince electors Peter von Aspelt, Archbishop of Mainz and Baudouin solicited for the other electors votes. Only Heinrich of Carinthia had stayed away from the election in 1308 as he did not reign undisputed in Bohemia. Heinrich was crowned king on January 6th, 1309 in Aachen. In August of the same year he had the remains of his two predecessors, Adolf of Nassau and Albrecht I of Habsburg, transferred to the Cathedral of Speyer. In August 1310 he deposed Heinrich of Carinthia as bohemian king and appointed his son Jean instead. The following day Jean married the bohemian heiress Elisabeth. Soon after his coronation he had voiced his intentions to travel to Rome and renew the imperial power in Italy. He crossed the Alps in October 1310 with an army of 5.000 men. Upon reaching Italy he was initially welcomed as an impartial negotiator and was crowned King of Italy in January. Through this the King of Naples, Robert of Anjou, saw his interests threatened and refused to pay homage. His reputation as peace bringer suffered when he suppressed the cities that also failed to do homage to him. After fighting against Cremona and Brescia (where his brother Walram died) he retired to Genoa where his army was seized by an epidemic and his wife died. In May 1312 he reached Rome where he clashed with King Roberts troops. As he was unable to enter Saint Peter's he was crowned emperor at the Lateran by several cardinals that Pope Clement V had sent from Avignon. During the siege of Florence in September and October 1312 he was infected with Malaria but recovered. He went to Pisa in spring 1313, where he sentenced Robert of Anjou in absence to death for disloyalty. In August he decided to defeat Naples once and for all and sent a fleet south, while he went there on land. On his way he besieged Siena and was again infected with Malaria and died soon afterwards in the village of Buonconvento. His heart was buried in his wifes sarcophagus while his body was transferred to Pisa. His son was unable to have himself elected king and emperor and supported Ludwig of Wittelsbach instead. He succeeded his father in Luxembourg and Arlon and improved the relations to France again that had become stained during his fathers reign as emperor.