MINIATURIST, Italian
(active 1190s in Sicily)

Petrus de Ebulo: Liber ad Honorem Augusti

c. 1195
Manuscript (MS 120 II)
Bürgerbibliothek, Bern

Folio 105r depicts the imperial coronation of Henry VI in Rome which took place in 1191.

Henry VI (1165--1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1190 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death. From 1194 he was also King of Sicily. He was the second son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his consort Beatrix of Burgundy. In 1186 he was married to Constance of Sicily, the posthumous daughter of the Norman king Roger II of Sicily.