Henry VI "the Younger" of Brunswick ( – 16 or 26 April 1214), of the
House of Welf
The House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph) is a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century. The originally Franconian family from the Meus ...
, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1212 to 1214.
Henry was born around 1196, the only son of Count Palatine
Henry V Henry V may refer to:
People
* Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026)
* Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125)
* Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161)
* Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (c. 1173–1227)
* Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (121 ...
and Agnes, daughter of
Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine
Conrad of Hohenstaufen ( – 8 November 1195) was the first hereditary Count Palatine of the Rhine.
His parents were Frederick II of Swabia (1090–1147), Duke of Swabia, and his second wife Agnes of Saarbrücken, daughter of Frederick, Coun ...
. In 1212 he was married to
Mathilde of Brabant (died 1267), daughter of
Henry I, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Brabant.
Henry was raised at the court of his great-uncle, King
John of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin ...
, and returned to Germany in 1211/1212. On political grounds, Henry's father abdicated the Palatine dignity in his favor in 1212.
At the court assembly in November 1212 in Aachen, Henry took the side of his uncle
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto IV (1175 – 19 May 1218) was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218.
Otto spent most of his early life in England and France. He was a follower of his uncle Richard the Lionheart, who made him Count of Poitou in 11 ...
. He was presumably engaged to
Mathilde of Brabant about the same time. Shortly thereafter he took sides against the party of Otto IV on behalf of
Frederick II.
Henry died childless on the 16th or 26 April 1214. He was buried in Schönau Abbey near
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German: ') is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914, of which roughly a quarter consisted of students ...
. He was succeeded as Count Palatine by the Duke
Louis I of Bavaria
en, Louis Charles Augustus
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, father of his brother-in-law
Otto of Bavaria.
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1196 births
1214 deaths
House of Welf
Counts Palatine of the Rhine
Burials at Schönau Abbey