Henry IV of Germany 1056-1106This is the first book in English devoted to the German king and emperor Henry IV (1056-1106), whose reign was one of the most momentous in German history and a turning-point in the history of the medieval empire (the kingdoms of Germany, Italy and Burgundy). The reign was marked by continuous rebellions and fluctuating fortune. Earlier monarchs had also witnessed conflict between crown and aristocracy, but Henry IV's reign differed in that his conflicts could never be definitively resolved either by negotiation or by war. During the 1070s the young king gained a lasting reputation for tyranny, while his assertion of the crown's traditional rights over the imperial church aroused papal opposition. The alliance between the German princes and the papacy haunted Henry IV for the rest of his life. He meanwhile, by turns opportunist and compromiser, dedicated himself at all times to preserving the traditional rights of the monarchy. |
Contents
The minority 10561065 | 19 |
Henry IV and Saxony 10651075 | 63 |
THE CONFLICT WITH DOPE GREGORY VII | 105 |
Henry IV the imperial Church and the reform papacy 10651075 | 107 |
Worms Canossa Forchheim 10761077 | 143 |
Civil war in Germany 10771081 | 171 |
The second Italian expedition 10811084 | 211 |
EMPEROR HENRY IV 10841106 | 237 |
Common terms and phrases
Abbot Adalbert allies Annales Altahenses Annales Augustani Anno Anno of Cologne anti-king appointed Archbishop army assembly Augsburg Bamberg Bavaria Bernold Berthold Berthold of Reichenau Billung bishops Bonizo Bremen Bruno Burchard Canossa Carinthia Chronica Chronicon Cologne conferred Conrad council Count court crown DD H decree DHIV duchy duke Ekbert Ekkehard election emperor empress enemies envoys episcopal excommunication expedition Fenske Frutolf Gawlik Gebhard Gebhard of Salzburg German kingdom Gesta Godfrey Goslar Gregory VII Halberstadt Henrician Henry IV Henry IV's Henry's imperial Church investiture Italian Italy king's kingship letter Liber de unitate Magdeburg Margrave Matilda Merseburg Meyer von Knonau MGH SS monastery negotiations Northeim oath Otto of Northeim peace Peter Damian pope pope's rebellion rebels reform papacy Regensburg Registrum reign Roman Rome Rudolf Salian Saxon princes Saxon war Saxonicum bellum secular Speyer Swabia synod Thuringian Tuscany Udalric vassals Vita Heinrici von Knonau 1900 Welf Welf IV Wibert Worms Würzburg young king