On this day 831 years ago, on November 20th, 1194 (leap October 6th, 1194 in the lunar calendar), Henry VI, the Holy Roman Emperor, led his army to capture Palermo. Henry VI On November 20, 1194, Henry VI, the Holy Roman Emperor, led an army to capture Palermo. Henry VI (November 1165-September 28, 1197), German king of the Hohenstaufen Dynasty (reigned from 1190 to 1197) and Holy Roman Emperor (crowned in 1191). He was also king of Sicily from 1194. His father was Frederick I "Redbeard" and his mother was Beatrix of Burgundy. Henry VI was born in Nymwegen, Netherlands. Henry VI was about the fifth child of the emperor and his wife. He became the crown prince due to the death of his elder brother and was elected king of Germany in 1190. In 1169, at the age of four, Henry was crowned king of Germany at the will of his father. In 1184, he and his younger brother Frederick VI, Duke of Swaben, were knighted after a grand ceremony in Mainz; But during the celebration, earthquakes and strong winds destroyed the tent and became a harbinger of the dynasty's decline. Henry's appearance is melancholy, pale and serious. He was not tall and thin, completely different from his father's tall and handsome look. When he was young, he was a great lover, and at the same time he wrote poems about love. He was a representative figure in the heyday of court lyric poetry at that time. He left behind about three poems, among which "R? testdunuhinnen", which tells the sorrow and sadness of his lover's parting in the tone of a woman, has become a masterpiece of German literature. In his love poems, Henry is a knight lover with deep and delicate feelings, but as a ruler, he shows a ruthless attitude towards the enemy. Later Pope Innocent III described him as "Henry VI roaring like the north wind, wreaking havoc in Sicily like a rose garden". Comment: It is more appropriate to be a poet.