Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

King of Germany

Duke of Bavaria

Events

Date of Birth: 11 November 1050.

Place of Birth: (possibly) Goslar.

The date and place are given by Schieffer and by Struve. The date is given by Becher (p. 154).

Date of Death: 7 August 1106.

Place of Death: Liège.

The date and place are given by Schieffer, by Becher (p. 154), and by Struve. The date is given by Althoff (p. 369).

Place of Burial: Speyer, Dom.

The place is given by Schieffer, by Becher (p. 179), and by Struve.

Relationships

Father: Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Wolf, by Becher (p. 154), and by Struve.

Mother: Agnes of Poitou.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Wolf, by Becher (p. 155), and by Struve.

Spouse: Bertha of Savoy. Married 13 July 1066.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Becher (p. 163), by Zey (p. 72), and by Struve.

Spouse: Ievpraxia Vsevolodovna of Kiev. Married 14 August 1089, divorced 1095.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Becher (pp. 176-177), by Zey (pp. 77, 79), by Raffensperger, and by Struve.

Children (by Bertha):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Adelaide (1070 - 4 June, before 1079).

Henry (1 or 2 August 1071 - 2 August 1071).

Agnes (1072 or 1073 - 2 August 1143) married (1) Frederick I, duke of Swabia; married (2) Leopold III, margrave of Austria.

Conrad (12 February 1074 - 27 July 1101), duke of Lower Lorraine.

Henry V (1081 - 23 May 1125), Holy Roman Emperor, married Matilda of England.

References

Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studieren zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984).

Becher, Matthias. “Heinrich IV. (1056-1106)” in Die Deutschen Herrscher des Mittelalters: Historische Portraits von Heinrich I. bis Maximillian I. (919-1519). (Beck: München, 2003)

Raffensperger, Christian. Re-examining Rus’: The Place of Kievan Rus’ in Europe, ca. 800-1146. PhD thesis, Chicago: 2006. [Volume 3: Appendix. Russian Dynastic Marriages 988-1146]

Robinson, I.S. Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106. (Cambridge U.P., 2000).

Schieffer, Theodor. “Heinrich IV.” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 8 (1969) S. 315-320 [Onlinefassung].

Schieffer, Th. "Adelheid (Eupraxia, Praxedis)" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).

Struve, T. "Heinrich.IV." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989)

Wolf, Armin. Ahnen deutscher Könige und Königinnen: Alternativen zu dem Werk von Eduard Hlawitschka. 2010. Selbstverlag des Herold, Berlin.

Zey, Claudia. “Frauen und Töchter der salischen Herrscher” in Die Salier, das Reich und der Niederrhein (Böhlau: Köln, 2008).