Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine

Henry VI "the Younger" of Brunswick, of the House of Welf, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1212 to 1214.

Henry was born around 1196, the only son of Count Palatine Henry V and Agnes, daughter of Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine. In 1212 he was married to Mathilde of Brabant (died 1267), daughter of Duke Henry I of Lower Lorraine and Brabant.

Henry was raised at the court of his uncle, King John of England, 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. 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. He was succeeded as Count Palatine by his brother-in-law, the Duke Louis I of Bavaria.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine

16. Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria               8. Henry X, Duke of Bavaria                       17. Wulfhilde of Saxony               4. Henry the Lion                             18. Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor               9. Gertrude of Süpplingenburg                       19. Richenza of Northeim               2. Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine                                   20. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou               10. Henry II of England                       21. Matilda of the English               5. Matilda of England                             22. William X, Duke of Aquitaine               11. Eleanor of Aquitaine                       23. Aenor de Châtellerault               1. Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine                                         24. Frederick I, Duke of Swabia               12. Frederick II, Duke of Swabia                       25. Agnes of Germany               6. Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine                             26. Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken               13. Agnes of Saarbrücken                       27. Gisela (of Teckelenburg or Lorraine?)               3. Agnes of Hohenstaufen                                   28. Gotebold II, Count of Henneberg               14. Berthold I, Count of Henneberg                       29. Liutgard von Hohenberg               7. Irmingard of Henneberg                             30. Frederick IV of Putelendorf, Count Palatine of Saxony               15. Bertha of Putelendorf                       31. Agnes van Limburg