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  Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry was the eldest son of the Emperor Henry III, by his second wife Agnes de Poitou, and was probably born at the royal palace at Goslar.
In 1088, Henry of Luxembourg, an antiking, died and Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen, a longtime enemy of the emperor's proclaimed himself the antiking's successor.
Henry had him condemned by a Saxon diet and then a national one at Quedlinburg and Regensburg respectively, but was defeated by Egbert when a relief army came to the margrave's rescue during the siege of Gleichen.
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 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry was finally remarried at Ingelheim in 1043 to Agnes, daughter of duke William V of Aquitaine and Agnes of Gévaudan.
Henry fell ill at Tribur in October and Henry of Bavaria and Otto of Swabia chose as his successor Otto's nephew and successor in the palatinate, Henry I.
Henry met the pope at Florence and arrested Beatrice, for marrying a traitor, and her daughter Matilda, later to be such an enemy of Henry's son.
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 Henry III
Henry's ideal was the purity of the Church.
Henry's ecclesiastical policy, therefore, had not only helped the reform party to victory but also led to the triumph of the idea of the supremacy of the Church, which was inseparably connected with it.
Henry, it is true, deposed the rebellious dukes, Conrad of Bavaria, and Guelph of Carinthia.
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 henryI.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry received direct support from Robert the Magnificent, duke of Normandy, and indirect support from the emperor Conrad II (a rival of Eudes in Burgundy and Lorraine), to whose daughter Matilda Henry was affianced (1033).
Henry maintained the imperial connection by marrying, in 1043, another Matilda, the niece of the emperor Henry III (r.
Henry concluded a new marriage in 1051, with Anne, the daughter of the Russian prince Jaroslaw III of Kiev.
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 emperors2
Born in Lesi, Italy, on December 26, 1194, Frederick was the son of Henry VI and grandson of Frederick I, Holy Roman emperor.
Henry was greatly concerned with church reform and went to Rome in 1046 to settle the conflict caused by three rival claimants to the papacy.
Henry VI (Holy Roman Empire) (1165-97), Holy Roman emperor (1191-97) and king of Sicily (1194-97), born in Nijmegen (in present-day Netherlands).
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 New Catholic Dictionary: Emperor Henry IV
He was the son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry III amd Empress Agness, and was educated under the influence of Archbishops Saint Anno of Cologne and Adalbert of Bremen, the latter the de facto ruler during his minority.
A synod at Worms pronounced Gregory deposed 1076, whereupon the pope excommunicated Henry on 14 February.
In 1098 the emperor had his son Henry elected king of Germany, but in 1104 the latter revolted and compelled his father to abdicate.
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 Pope Victor II
His parents were Count Hartwig and Countess Baliza; the Emperor Henry III recognized him as a collateral kinsman, and he was a nephew of Bishop Gebhard III of Ratisbon, who at the court Diet of Goslar presented him (Christmas Day, 1042) to Henry III as a candidate for the episcopal see of Eichstatt.
He was in the emperor's retinue when the latter was crwned at Rome in 1046; he took part in the synod presided over by Leo IX at Mainz in October, 1049, and in the consultations between the pope and the emperor at Ratisbon and Bamberg in 1052.
He accompanied Henry III to Botfeld in the Hartz Mountains where on 5 October he witnessed the untimely death of the emperor.
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 SBU Dept. of History & Political Science: HIS 1113 Lecture Twenty-six   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry III was concerned about the lax discipline among churchmen at all levels, especially their failure to adhere to canonical procedures.
Henry's newly implemented authority over bishops was exercised soon in 1046 when called together a meeting of churchmen at Sutri in Italy and deposed three bishops, each of which had a claim at that time to be the Pope.
Henry IV's first clash with the papacy came under pope Alexander II and was centered in a disagreement over whose nominee would be honored in filling the vacant bishopric of Milan.
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 AllRefer.com - Henry III, Holy Roman emperor and German king (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Henry III 1017–56, Holy Roman emperor (1046–56) and German king (1039–56), son and successor of Conrad II.
In 1041, Henry defeated the Bohemians, who had been overrunning the lands of his vassals, the Poles, and compelled Duke Bratislaus I of Bohemia to renew his vassalage.
The four German popes named by Henry (including Leo IX) renewed the strength of the papacy, which was to prove the nemesis of his successors.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Plantagenets > Henry III
Richard II Henry III - gilt-bronze tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey; the effigy was commissioned from William Torel in 1291
Although Henry was extravagant and his tax demands were resented, the king's accounts show a list of many charitable donations and payments for building works (including the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey which began in 1245).
However, Henry escaped, joined forces with the lords of the Marches (on the Welsh border), and finally defeated and killed de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265.
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 History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Emperor Henry III., of the house of Franconia, was appealed to by the advocates of reform, and felt deeply the sad state of the church.
He was only twenty-two years old, but ripe in intellect, full of energy and zeal, and aimed at a reformation of the church under the control of the empire, as Hildebrand afterwards labored for a reformation of the church under the control of the papacy.
The emperor, at the request of the Romans, appointed at Worms in December, 1048, Bruno, bishop of Toul, to the papal chair.
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 1000 - 1100
Henry II of The Holy Roman Empire (called Henry the Saint) dies and is succeeded by Conrad II.
Henry III (called The Black) of the Holy Roman Empire defends the Poles (his vassals) against the Bohemians.
Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire convokes a Germany council to dispose of Pope Gregory VII.
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 Burgundy of Henri III (le Noir) 1038 - 56 Henry III of Burgundy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henri III was second in a line of five rulers with a Franconian background.
Leo IX, Henri’s cousin and former bishop of Toul, was a sincere reformer of the church leading to such changes as the forbidding of carrying arms by the clergy and enforcing the rule of celibacy.
The Emperor Henry III gave them a hearing, well aware of the advantage of having the patron of the Merovingian kings and Pippin the Short in his hands.
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 Heinrich IV Emperor Germany (11 Nov 1050 - 07 Aug 1106)
Heinrich IV Emperor Of Germany became king of Germany at the age of six.
It is said that Henry had to stand barefoot in the snow for three days before he was permitted to kneel at the pope's feet and be pardoned.
Finally, in 1105, Henry was forced to abdicate after one of his sons had been persuaded to rebel against him.
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 Henry III (Holy Roman Empire) - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry III (Holy Roman Empire), called The Black (1017-1056) German king (1028-1056) and Holy Roman emperor (1046-1056), son and successor of Conrad...
Conrad’s son (Henry III), who ruled until 1056, was possibly the first undisputed king of Germany.
He was the son of Emperor Henry III.
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry succeeded his cousin Otto III as king of Germany in 1002 and abandoned Otto's policies of world domination.
Henry hoped instead to restore the kingdom of the Franks and, in so doing, to consolidate the German empire.
Henry's philosophy and policy of intimate cooperation between church and state have led some to consider him the epitome of the Christian ruler.
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 BookRags: Henry, IV Biography
Henry IV (1050-1106) was Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany from 1056 to 1106.
Born in Goslar, Saxony, Henry IV was the only son of Emperor Henry III and Agnes of Poitou.
Henry also had much trouble due to opposition to his rule in both Germany and Italy, especially from his eldest son, Conrad, and from Duke Welf of Bavaria and Countess Matilda of Tuscany.
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 CLEMENT II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry not only became emperor but assumed the title of Patrician, and to him the Romans conceded the right of nominating the pope.
So general was the disgust at the irresponsible conduct of the Roman nobility that this act, which tended to place the papacy in thraldom to the Emperor, was actually hailed with joy even by reformers.
At the Emperor's wish, the Pope excommunicated the people of Benevento when they refused to open their gates to the imperial party.
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 Henry IV (Holy Roman Empire) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Henry IV (Holy Roman Empire) (1050-1106), Holy Roman emperor (1056-1106).
In 1110 Henry agreed to respect the decree of Pope Paschal II against lay investiture, that is, the king's right to confer symbols of authority on...
In 1056 Henry IV, while still a child, succeeded his father.
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 Pope Victor II
His nomination to the papacy by Henry, at Mainz, in September 1054, was made at the instance of a Roman deputation headed by Hildebrand, whose policy doubtless was to detach from the imperial interest one of its ablest supporters.
In June 1055 Victor met the emperor at Florence, and held a council, which anew condemned clerical marriages, simony and the alienation of the estates of the church.
As guardian of Henry's infant son, and adviser of the empress Agnes, Victor now wielded enormous power, which he began to use with much tact for the maintenance of peace throughout the empire and for strengthening the papacy against the aggressions of the barons.
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 BookRags: Henry, III Biography
Henry III (1017-1056) was Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany from 1039 to 1056.
It was Henry III, therefore, who unwittingly laid the foundations of a papal reform with which his successors had to cope.
During his reign Henry III dominated much of eastern Europe, kept Germany peaceful, controlled much of Italy, and intervened almost as head of the Church in papal affairs.
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 History of the Mass (11histot.htm)
Henry had nominated this holy man largely for his reforming zeal and the way he raised moral standards wherever he went.
We believe that while Leo was in prison Henry, after authorizing his legate and Leo's confidante Hildebrand to consult with the Roman curia, selected Gebhard, the last of the four German Popes he nominated, to be the 153rd pontiff.
Henry, not able to stay in Italy, decided to appoint Victor II duke of Spoleto and count of Fermo in an effort to strengthen his hold in Tuscany and with the Normans in the south.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Guide to documents and events (76-2005)
After his coronation (1014), the emperor, through a solemn diploma, confirm the rights of the Roman church, and declares that the election of the pope should be freely done by the people and the clergy.
To place an unsurmountable barrier to the ambition of the counts of Tusculum, Clement II renewed in favor of Henry III the privilege given to Charlemagne of confirming the election of the supreme pontiffs.
Henry then had himself invested with the rank of patrician which empowered him to take the lead in the appointment of a pope, and the Romans had to undertake afresh not to elect a pope in future without the approval of emperor and patrician.
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 History of the Mass (10histot.htm)
It was left to German king and Holy Roman Emperor Henry III to siphon through all the evidence and sort out which of the three popes should be the rightful man to rule Holy Mother Church.
However in the fall of 1046 Henry III, in an effort to sort everything out and restore order to the papacy and the kingdom of Italy, not to mention the Holy Roman Empire, held a synod in Sutri near Rome and formally deposed both Silvester III and Benedict IX.
In the next installment we shall detail the Reign of King Henry III who brought a semblance of peace back to the papacy and a trust in the supreme pontiffs that had been sorely lacking over nearly the past two centuries.
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 Friedrich I, 'Barbarossa' Holy_Roman_Empir (1122 - 10 Jun 1190)
Conrad III, favoring Frederick over his own son, on his deathbed recommended to the German princes that Frederick be chosen for the German kingship and the imperial throne.
Frederick was forced in 1177 to acknowledge Alexander III as pope and in 1183 to sign the Peace of Constance, acceding to the demands of the Lombards for autonomy but retaining imperial suzerainty over the towns.
His own power as emperor in Germany was firmly established in 1180, when he ended his long struggle with the Welfs by putting down a revolt led by the Welf Henry the Lion and depriving him of most of his lands.
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 Otto IV - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1175-1218), Holy Roman emperor (1198-1215), the son of Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and of Bavaria, and the...
Henry IV (Holy Roman Empire): Otto I (Holy Roman Empire)
Otto I (Holy Roman Empire), called Otto the Great (912-973), Holy Roman emperor (962-973), king of Germany (936-973), the son of the German king...
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 St. Pachomius Library
Suidger of Bamberg was born in Saxony and was chaplain to Emperor Henry III when Henry ousted various rival claimants to the papal throne, Benedict IX, Sylvester III, and Gregory VI in 1046.
Henry arranged for Suidger's election on Christmas Eve and for his consecration on Christmas Day.
Clement travelled extensively with Henry during his ten-month papacy and died, probably of lead poisoning, at the monastery of St. Thomas near Pesaro.
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 Movers: Middle Ages (450 - 1400) - By Miles Hodges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry ("the Lion") [Duke of Saxony and Bavaria] (1142-80)
Emperor of the Roman Empire in the East, 717-741.
Emperor and ruler of the central Carolingian lands (Lotharingia), 840-855.
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 St. Pachomius Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A favorite of Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, Victor was born Gebhard of Dollnsten-Hirschberg c.
Victor, whom Henry nominated, was elected pope in 1055, and in the same year, Henry named him Duke of Spoleto and Count of Fermo.
When Henry died the following year, Victor was given care of Henry's son, whom he crowned emperor with Queen Agnes as regent.
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