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Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
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Henry IV was Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1105), King of Germany (1054–1105), and King of Italy and Burgundy (1056–1105). A Salian ruler, he was the son of Henry III and Agnes of Poitou. After his father's death in 1056, his mother acted as regent, granting lands to secure aristocratic support. Unable to control papal elections, she witnessed the growing assertion of the "liberty of the Church", a principle central to the emerging Gregorian Reform. In 1062, Archbishop Anno II of Cologne kidnapped Henry and governed until he came of age in 1065.

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“Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor” enters the record as holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Henry, Holy and Roman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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