Henrik

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Henrik, Earl of Belleth is a character in An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom, appearing in book two, The Queen Who Ruled by Herself. At the beginning of the story he is 23 years old and the best friend of Ilhovin, whom he accompanied to Sairland on a trip to negotiate the Treaty of Ilhovin and to secure Macca's hand.

In 626 KY, he lost the tip of his tongue in a failed attempt to coerce Macca into supporting his ambition to marry her himself and to eventually become King of Tremont by betraying and killing Ilhovin, who was the only child and heir of Gethin IV.

Macca relieved him of the rest of his tongue in 632 KY, when he was delivered to her by his co-conspirators in his rebellion against her and Ilhovin, Duke Rek of Leutefloss and Duke Adden of Barle. Eldest Brother Annert finally beheaded him for treason, after which point his headless body and those of Rek and Adden were flung back into the rebellion stronghold of Marsury to convince the remainder of the rebel forces to give up. His body is now buried in the family crypt in Belleth. His head was kept in a chest separate from his body, though, when Macca brought it to the Bloody One's Temple in Tremont. She hid it in a niche deep in the caves of the Temple, where it was found by Princess Sedra and King Brinnid in 990 KY.

Through a Prophecy made by Harla to Macca in 686 KY, the reunification of Henrik's remains is tied both to the reunification of her remains with those of her husband, and through this to the return of Magic to the Kings of Tremont.