enry VI, German emperor (1190-7), was born
in 1165, the son of Frederick I, Barbarossa, and Constance,
heiress to the kingdom of Sicily. One of the main objects of his
policy was to make himself master of that island. Another was to
abolish the elective character of the imperial sovereignty, and
have it declared hereditary in his own family. Both objects
failed of realization. See Toeche’s Kaiser Heinrich VI
(1867). [World Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1935]