As early as 1459 Emperor Frederick III appointed Henry's older brother Victor as an imperial count.

Although Henry and his brothers adhered to the Catholic faith, the Pope refused to recognize their royal titles because the Ban imposed on George of Poděbrady should also apply to his sons.

In this position, on 10 August 1471 he received in Kladsko the newly elected King Vladislas II of Bohemia, who was on his way from Kraków to Prague for the coronation.

To this end, they invited representatives of Bohemia, Poland, Silesia and Lausitz to participate in negotiations in Opava, which were held[clarification needed] by Victor.

In 1477 Henry annexed the barony of Homole, which hitherto had belonged to the Bohemian circle of Hradec Králové, to[clarification needed] the County of Kladsko.

In 1477, Henry participated in the peace negotiations between Bohemia and Silesia in Broumov as a representative of Vladislas II, together with William Krušina of Lichtenburg (as governor of Hradec Králové), Peter Kdulinec, Christoph von Talkenberg auf Talkenstein and Hans of Warnsdorf.

On 3 July 1479, Henry welcomed the anti-king Matthias Corvinus of Poland in Olomouc, on behalf of king Vladislas II of Bohemia.

Also in 1495, Henry had to sell Litice and other East Bohemian lands to the High Steward of Bohemia, William II of Pernstein, to pay the debts he had incurred during his participation in the war against Matthias Corvinus.

Henry died a year later, and his sons failed to pay off the loan, so they had to sell Náchod to Jan Špetle.

The marriage produced eight children: Through Henry's mediation his surviving sons Albert, George and Charles married in 1487 and 1488 with three daughters of Duke John II of Sagan and Großglogau.

As Duke of Münsterberg, Henry founded the Silesian branch of the House of Poděbrady, which became extinct in the male line in 1647.

With the marriage of his sister Ludmila with Frederick I of Liegnitz on 7 September 1474 Henry increased the family connections with the House of Piast.

For Poland the Piast female line inheritance was formally accepted in the Radomsk declaration of 27 November 1382, on behalf of the 'lords and the whole community' of Wielkopolska.