The future archbishop may be the same person as the Henry who is recorded as archdeacon of the collegiate church of Marienkamp in Mainz in 1104.
The prologue of one late 12th-century copy of the Imago mundi of Honorius of Autun says that the text was edited by this Henry in 1110.
[3][4] In 1147, at the synod of Trier, he presented a copy of Hildegard's biblical commentaries to Pope Eugene III and Bernard of Clairvaux.
Nevertheless, the Chronica regia Coloniensis claims that he opposed Barbarossa's election, preferring the accession of Conrad's young son, Frederick.
Otto of Freising reports that it was because he was "often reproved ... but never improved", but the Chronica regia claims that it was because he refused to recognize Barbarossa's election.