In 1493, Count Engelbert II of Nassau-Dillenburg, an uncle from his mother's side, appointed him as governor of the County of Vianden, an area that is now part of Luxembourg.
Despite the Eternal Landfrieden, which Emperor Maximilian I had declared in 1495, this dispute was initially fought at gunpoint.
It was not until 1498 that the two counts agreed to stop fighting and present their case to the newly created Reichskammergericht.
The towns of Korbach, Niederwildungen, Sachsenhausen, Sachsenberg and Freienhagen remained shared property, as did the castle, city and districts of Waldeck and Rhoden and the Lordship of Itter.
Henry died in 1513 and was buried in the Marienthal monastery in Netze (today part of Waldeck).