Marriage and Issue
By 1218, Henry married Anna (ca. 1204 – 23 June 1265), daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia. They had ten children:
- Gertrude (ca. 1218/20 – 23/30 April 1247), married by 1232 to Bolesław I of Masovia.
- Constance (ca. 1221 – ca. 21 February 1257), married by 1239 to Casimir I of Kuyavia.
- Bolesław II the Bald (ca. 1220/25 – 25/31 December 1278).
- Mieszko (ca. 1223/27 – 1242).
- Henry III the White (1227/30 – 3 December 1266).
- Konrad (1228/31 – 6 August ca. 1274).
- Elizabeth (ca. 1232 – 16 January 1265), married in 1244 to Przemysł I of Greater Poland.
- Agnes (ca. 1236 – 14 May aft. 1278), Abbess of St.Clara in Trebnitz (aft. 1277).
- Władysław (1237 – 27 April 1270), Chancellor of Bohemia (1256), Bishop of Passau (1265) and Archbishop of Salzburg (1265–70).
- Hedwig (ca. 1238/41 – 3 April 1318), Abbess of St.Clara in Wrocław.
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