Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor

German noble

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1165

Place of Birth: Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 28-Sep-1197

Profession: monarch, writer, composer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor

  • Henry VI (Heinrich VI) (November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1190 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death.
  • From 1194 he was also King of Sicily. He was the second son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his consort Beatrix of Burgundy.
  • In 1186 he was married to Constance of Sicily, the posthumous daughter of the Norman king Roger II of Sicily.
  • Henry, stuck in the Hohenstaufen conflict with the House of Welf until 1194, had to enforce the inheritance claims by his wife against her nephew Count Tancred of Lecce.
  • Henry's attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Sicily failed at the siege of Naples in 1191 due to an epidemic.
  • Based on an enormous ransom for the release of King Richard I of England, he conquered Sicily in 1194; however, the intended unification with the Holy Roman Empire ultimately failed due to the opposition of the Papacy. Henry threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire after 1194 and succeeded in extracting a ransom, the Alamanikon, from Emperor Alexios III Angelos in return for cancelling the invasion.
  • In 1195 and 1196 Henry attempted to turn the Holy Roman Empire from an elective to a hereditary monarchy, the so-called Erbreichsplan, but met strong resistance from the prince-electors and abandoned the plan.
  • Henry pledged to go on crusade in 1195 and began preparations.
  • A revolt in Sicily was crushed in 1197.
  • The Crusaders set sail for the Holy Land that same year but Henry died of illness at Messina on 28 September 1197 before he could join them.
  • His death plunged the Empire into the chaos of the German throne dispute for the next 17 years.

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