Heinrich von Berg

The Freisinger Bishop Otto II von Berg was also his brother.

Count Berthold I. von Henneberg is considered a nephew.

Heinrich began his spiritual career as the canon of Speyer Cathedral and was elected by Frederick Barbarossa in the election as bishop of Passau, against the candidate of Pope Alexander III Albo preferred, but had to leave shortly afterwards in 1171 and followed his younger brother Diepold.

Heinrich went back to Speyer and rose to the Dompropst in 1176 and took over this post in 1180 also in Bamberg.

In Reichpolitik he appeared in 1193 when the Emperor was a guest in Wurzburg, and on 14 February he negotiated a treaty with the Duke Leopold of Austria on the extradition of the English King Richard the Lion Heart, who had been imprisoned on his return from the Third Crusade.