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September 28, 1197
- Henry, who was only 32 years old, died of fever in a few days. On September 28, 1197, they laid him in his grave. He was buried in the Cathedral of Palermo. He was a great but short-lived German king.
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On the news of Henry's death, the Byzantine "German tax" was abolished. When Henry died, he was the most powerful monarch in Christendom, being Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Burgundy, Italy, Sicily, feudal overlord of the Kings of England, Lesser Armenia and Cyprus, and tributary lord of Northern African princes.
Henry of Gorizia (German: Heinrich, Czech: Jindřich; c. 1265 – 2 April 1335), a member of the House of Gorizia, was Duke of Carinthia and Landgrave of Carniola (as Henry VI) and Count of Tyrol from 1295 until his death, as well as King of Bohemia, Margrave of Moravia and titular King of Poland in 1306 and again from 1307 until 1310.
Apr 26, 2022 · April 2, 1335. Age 70. Death of Henry of Bohemia at Schloss Tirol. Schloss Tirol, Merano, Bolzano, Österreich, Deutschland (HRR) Genealogy Directory: Genealogy for Henry VI Meinhardiner, king of Bohemia (c.1265 - 1335) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- circa 1265
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Henry VI . Henry VI, German Heinrich, (born autumn 1165, Nijmegen, Neth.—died Sept. 28, 1197, Messina, Italy), German king (1169–97) and Holy Roman emperor (1191–97) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty who acquired the kingdom of Sicily by marriage.
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.
Sep 1, 2023 · Inheriting the Throne. When in May, 1189, his father Friedrich Barbarossa went on a crusade, Henry remained to rule in his absence. On June 10, 1190, Friedrich Barbarossa drowned in Cilicia (Asia Minor), and Henry VI inherited his father’s throne.
The proposal was defeated, though it found many supporters, and Henry contented himself with securing the election of his infant son (later Emperor Frederick II) as king. Henry died of a fever at Messina just as he was preparing to invade the Holy Land.
