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Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry V and his father Henry IV

Henry V ( 11 August 1086 - 23 May 1125), is king of the Romans from 1106 to 1111 , then Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1111 to 1125.

Biography

He is the son of the former Emperor Henry IV (1050-1106) and Bertha of Turin (1051-1087). He married, in 1114 , Matilda (1103-1167), daughter of Henry I Beauclerc (1068-1135) and Matilda of Scotland.

After the deposition of his older brother, Conrad , at the Diet of Mainz in April 1098 , it is associated with his father as king of Germany. Fearful of not being able to succeed him, the future Henry V raises in 1104. While her father wants to justify himself before the assembly convened in the great castle Boeckelheim, it does lock up. He forced his father to abdicate in his favor in 1105, benefiting to do the support of Pope Paschal II. His father managed to escape but died of grief on August 7 1106

He goes down in Italy in 1110. Through the agreement Sutri ( 4 February 1111 ), he obtained a solution to the investiture controversy by suggesting the abandonment by the bishops of their sovereign rights. This agreement is disputed by the entourage of Paschal II. Henry V captured the pope and then forced him to crown him Emperor in 1111.

Like his father, he seeks to develop its estate in Saxony. The arrest of the Count of Thuringia in 1114 triggered a revolt. The Lower Lorraine and the Archbishop of Cologne break with the king while the Duke of Saxony, Lothar of Supplinburg leads hostilities. Only Frederick of Hohenstaufen , Duke of Swabia also contends the emperor. Down again in Italy, he tries to recapture Paschal II in vain in 1116. The anti-popes Sylvester IV Gregory VIII and do not fool anyone.

In 1120, while the rebels and the imperial prepare to do battle under the walls of Mainz, Bruno Bretten , the Archbishop of Trier , brings together the largest and leading negotiations for a compromise. The members of the aristocracy to submit to Henry V, subjecting himself to the pope, under-reserve to preserve the "honor of the kingdom", a proposal confirmed by the Diet of Wrzburg ( 29 September 1121 ). This led to the signing of the Concordat of Worms ( 23 September 1122 ), ending the investiture controversy with Pope Callistus II.

Preceded by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor Followed by
Henry IV
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Lothair II

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