Emperor Henry Staufen of Germany IV (Heinrich of the Holy Roman Empire) 
Henry was born on November 11th, 1050 in Goslar, Brunswick, Germany.1 Henry's father was Holy Roman Emperor, King Henry (The Black) of Germany III and his mother was Princess of Aquitaine Agnes of Poitou. His paternal grandparents were Emperor Conrad (The Salian) of Saxony II and Gisela of Swabia; his maternal grandparents were Grand Count of Acquitaine William (The Great) of Poitou V and Agnes of Burgundy de Macon. He had two sisters named Maud and <Unknown>. He had a half-sister named Irmgard. He died at the age of 55 on August 7th, 1106 in Luttich.1 General Notes
Henry IV, (November 11, 1050 - 1106) was German king from 1056, and Emperor from 1084, both until his deposition in 1105. He was the third emperor of the Salian dynasty.
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. His christening was delayed until the following Easter so that Abbot Hugh of Cluny could be one of his godparents. But even before that, at his Christmas court Henry III induced the attending nobles to promise to be faithful to his son. Three years later, still anxious to insure the succession, Henry III had a larger assembly of nobles elect the young Henry as his successor, and then, on July 17, 1054, had him crowned as king by Archbishop Herman of Cologne. Thus when Henry III unexpectedly died in 1056, the accession of the 6-year-old Henry IV was not opposed. The dowager Empress Agnes acted as regent. Henry's reign was marked by efforts to consolidate Imperial power. In reality, however, it was a careful balancing act between maintaining the loyalty of the nobility and the support of the pope. Henry jeopardized both when, in 1075, his insistence on the right of a secular ruler to invest, i.e., to place in office, members of the clergy, especially bishops, began the conflict known as the Investiture Controversy. Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Henry on February 22, 1076. Gregory, on his way to a diet at Augsburg, and hearing that Henry was approaching, took refuge in the castle of Canossa (near Parma) belonging to Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. Henry's intent, however, was to perform the penance required to lift his excommunication, and ensure his continued rule. He stood for three days, 25 January - 27 January 1077, outside the gate at Canossa, begging the pope to rescind the sentence (though not, as is often stated, in bare shirt with no food or shelter). The Pope lifted the excommunication, imposing a vow to comply with certain conditions, which Henry soon violated.
Henry's first marriage, to Bertha, countess of Maurine, produced two sons, of whom Conrad died after claiming the imperial crown, and Henry forced his father's abdication in 1105, replacing him as Henry V. A daughter, Agnes of Franconia, married the later Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. Henry's second marriage (1089-93) was to Eupraxia of Kiev, the daughter of Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0918 d.10 Aug 0955
- b.0948 d.04 Nov 1004
- b.0931 d.18 Nov 0953
- b.0969 in Speyergau, Rheinland, Germany d.28 May 0997
- b.0920 d.0953
- b.0952
<Unknown>
- b.0990 in Swabia, Germany d.04 Jun 1039 in Utrecht, Netherlands
- b.0900 d.18 Dec 0972
- b.0946
- b.0915 d.0974
- b.0975 in Alsace, France d.19 May 1045
- b.0922 in Luxembourg d.15 Aug 0998
- b.0954 d.19 Apr 1020
- b.0934 d.13 Dec 0992
- b.28 Oct 1017 in Oosterbeek, Schwaben, Bavaria d.05 Oct 1056 in Bodfeld, Hartz, Germany
- b.0880 d.15 Jan 0947
- b.0920 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria d.20 Jul 0997 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.0882 d.12 Dec 0949
- b.0958 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria d.04 May 1003 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.0882 in Burgundy, France d.29 Apr 0926 in Burgundy, France
- b.0912 d.0945
- b.0887 in Zurich, Switzerland d.23 Apr 0955 in Ufenau Island, Zurich, Switzerland
- b.11 Nov 0985 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria d.14 Feb 1043 in Goslar, Duitsland
- b.0902 in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France d.11 Jul 0937 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0925 in Arles, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Oct 0993 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0905 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria d.02 Jan 0965 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0968 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France d.1016 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.10 Sep 0921 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France d.10 Sep 0954 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France
- b.0943 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France d.27 Jan 0980 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0913 in Nordausen, Saxony, Prussia d.05 May 0984 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
- b.11 Nov 1050 in Goslar, Brunswick, Germany d.07 Aug 1106 in Luttich
- b.0889 d.0935
- b.0915 d.03 Apr 0963
- d.03 Feb 0994
- b.0995 d.31 Jan 1029
- b.0954
- b.1020 in Aquitaine, France d.14 Dec 1077
- b.0900 in Bamberg, Germany d.06 Aug 0966 in Bamberg, Germany
- b.0936 d.0971
- b.0924 in Tuscany, Italy d.0936 in Bamburg, Germany
- b.0958 in Lombardy, Italy d.21 Sep 1026 in Dijon, France
- b.0920
- b.0952 d.0991
- b.0925
- d.10 Nov 1068
- b.0880 in Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Feb 0942 in St. Quentin, Flanders
- b.0931 in Reims, Marne, France d.15 Mar 0973 in France
- b.0897 in Vermandois, Neustria, France d.Mar 0930 in Vermandois, Neustria, France
- b.0963 in Rheim, Marne, France d.05 Mar 1005
- b.0915 in Hainault, Flanders, Belgium d.02 Oct 0939 in Andernach, Rhineland, Germany
- b.0930
- b.0913 in Nordausen, Saxony, Prussia d.05 May 0984 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
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Details of Henry's family with Countess Berthe de Maurienne
Details of Henry's family with Eupraxia Rurik of Kiev
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=bevangenealogy&id=I33899&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I80769&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I8420
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I80769&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I8420
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