 When Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg died without male heirs in 1196, his county escheated to the Emperor and Henry VI enfeoffed his brother Otto.Theobald I, Count of Bar, who had married Ermesinde, daughter of late Count Henry IV, negotiated the renunciation of Luxembourg with Otto the next year.Meanwhile, Count Palatine Otto's regional conflicts had become a severe threat to the power politics of his Hohenstaufen relatives.