Heinrich (Henry) (d. 1227) Count Palatine of the Rhine

Count Palatine Heinrich was the eldest son of Heinrich the Lion. From his first marriage with Agnes von Staufen, he had only a single son, Heinrich (d. 1214). In 1195, after the death of his father-in-law, Konrad of Staufen,Count Palatine Heinrich inherited the Rhenish Palatinate. He was little interested in politics, and he had developed little ambition. In the dispute between the Stuafen and the Welfs, he sided once with one side and then with the other, and in 1212 he abdicated the Palatinate in favor of his only son Heinrich. However, the latter died nearly two years later without male descendents. Count Palatine Heinrich inherited all Welf estates in North Germany from his brother, emperor Otto IV., but after his death in 1227 he left this to his nephew, Otto "the Child," who from 1235 entered history as the first duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg and united the entire Welf estate.

--Adapted from the website, Die Welfen