Background
Henry was born around 1196, the only son of Count Palatine Henry V and Agnes, daughter of Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine.
Henry was born around 1196, the only son of Count Palatine Henry V and Agnes, daughter of Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine.
He was presumably engaged to Mathilde of Brabant about the same time. 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.
On political grounds, Henry"s father abdicated the Palatine dignity in his favor in 1212. Shortly thereafter he took sides against the party of Otto IV on behalf of Frederick World War II