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Henry VI

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ224833 ↗
Source-derived summary

Henry VI may refer to:

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1165–1197), also king of Germany, Italy, Burgundy and Sicily

Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine (ruled 1212–1214)

Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg (crowned 1281, died 1288)

Henry VI the Elder (before 1345 – 1393), Polish duke

Henry VI, Count of Gorizia (1376–1454)

Henry VI of England (1421–1471)

Henry VI (play), a series of three plays by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen (1536–1572)

Heinrich VI Reuss of Plauen and Köstritz (1707–1783)

Pretenders to the throne of France:

Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), Orleanist claimant

Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (1908–1975).

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The public source identifies “Henry VI” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Henry, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1165, 1197, 1212, 1214—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Henry, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q224833. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1165, 1197, 1212 and 1214.

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This entry incorporates text from “Henry VI” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.