Husband Bernard II Comte d'Auvergne 1 2
AKA: Bernard II d'Auvergne Count
Born: Abt 841 - Auvergne, France
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Bernard I Comte d'Auvergne (Abt 0815- ) 3
Mother: Luitgarde (Abt 0817- ) 4
Marriage:
Wife Ermengarde de Chalons 1 5
AKA: Ermengarde de Chalons
Born: Abt 843 - France
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Gueron Count of Chalons (Abt 0818-0856) 6
Mother: Avane (Abt 0820- ) 7
Children
1 M Raculfe de Mâcon 8
Born: Abt 867 - <Auvergne>, France
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Adelaide 1
Born: Abt 867 - Auvergne, France
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Alfred Count of Carcassonne (Abt 0860- ) 1
Husband Olderich Manfred II Margrave of Turin 9
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1035
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Berta 10
Born:
Christened:
Died: After 4 Nov 1037
Buried:
Father: Margrave Udalrich Manfred ( - ) 10
Mother:
Children
1 F Alix Duchess of Turin 11 12 13
AKA: Adelaide of Susa, Duchess of Turin
Born: Abt 1015
Christened:
Died: 27 Dec 1091
Buried:
Spouse: Eudes I Count of Maurienne and Savoy (Abt 1002-1060) 9 12
Marr: Abt 1046
Husband Herbert I Count of Vermandois 14 15 16
AKA: Hubert I de Vermandois, Herbert I de Vermandois
Born: Abt 850
Christened:
Died: 6 Nov 900-907
Buried:
Father: Pepin Count of Senlis, Peronne, St. Quentin (Between 0817/0818- ) 17 18
Mother:
Marriage:
Events
• Count of Soissons:
• Count of Méaux:
• Count of Vermandois: 877-900.
Wife Bertha de Morvois 19
AKA: Beatrice of Morvois
Born: Abt 844 - Namur, Namur, Belgium
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Guerri I Count of Morvois ( - )
Mother: Eve of Roussillon ( - ) 20
Children
1 M Herbert II Count of Vermandois, Soissons and Troyes 21 22 23 24
AKA: Herbert II de Vermandois
Born: Between 880 and 890 - Vermandois, (Aisne), Picardy, France
Christened:
Died: 23 Feb 943 - Saint-Quentin, Vermandois, (Aisne), Picardy, France
Buried:
Spouse: Liegarde of France (Abt 0886-After 0931) 25 26
Marr: by 907
2 F Beatrice de Vermandois 27 28
AKA: Beatrix de Vermandois
Born: 880 - <Vermandois, Neustria (France)>
Christened:
Died: After Mar 931
Buried:
Spouse: Robert I Duke of France (0866-0923) 29
Marr: After 893
3 F Cunigunde de Vermandois
Born:
Christened:
Died: 943
Buried:
4 F Adele of Vermandois 15
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
5 M Berenger de Vermandois Count of Bayeaux
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Research Notes: Husband - Herbert I Count of Vermandois
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 50-17 has b. abt. 850, d. 6 Nov bet. 900/907. Count of Soissons, Count of Méaux, Count of Vermandois 877/900 Events
• Repudiated: 998.
2nd wife of Robert II. Widow of Eudes I.
Events
• King of France: 1 Jan 996-1031.
Events
• Repudiated: 998.
Melun, France?
Count of Paris, King of France 2nd wife of Robert II. Widow of Eudes I.
Events
• High Sheriff of Gloucestershire:
From Wikipedia - Walter de Gloucester : Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 130-24 (Adelaide)
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 130-24 (Adelaide)
Events
• Crowned: King of Germany, 1056.
• Crowned: Holy Roman Emperor, 31 Mar 1084, Rome, (Italy).
• Abdicated: as Holy Roman Emperor, 1105.
Events
• Betrothal: to Henry IV, 25 Dec 1055, Zürich, (Switzerland).
• Crowned: Holy Roman Empress, 31 Mar 1084, Rome, (Italy).
From Wikipedia - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor : From Wikipedia - Bertha of Savoy : Events
• Baptized: by Pope Adrian I, 12 Apr 781, Rome, (Italy).
• King of Italy: 781-810.
• Consecrated: King of Lombardy, 15 Apr 781.
Baptized at Rome, 12 Apr. 781, by Pope Adrian I
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 50-14 Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 50-14 (Pepin)
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44. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 177-4 (Sibyl de Neufmarche).
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Source: familysearch.org (Kevin Bradford) has b. abt 840, d. abt 902. Has name as Hubert I.
From Wikipedia - Herbert I, Count of Vermandois :
Herbert I of Vermandois (c. 848 /850 - 907 ), Count of Vermandois , lord of Senlis , of Peronne and of Saint Quentin , was the son of Pepin of Vermandois .
Marriage and issue
He married Bertha de Morvois . They had the following:
Research Notes: Wife - Bertha de Morvois
Source: Also familysearch.org (Kevin Bradford)
Husband Eudes I Count of Blois 30
Born:
Christened:
Died: 12 Mar 996
Buried:
Marriage: Abt 963
Wife Bertha of Burgundy 31
Born: Abt 964
Christened:
Died: After 1010
Buried:
Father: Conrad I King of Burgundy, King of West Franks (Abt 0925-0993) 32 33
Mother: Mathilda of France, Queen of Burgundy (0943-0992) 34 35
Other Spouse: Robert II "the Pious" King of France (0972-1031) 36 37 - 995
Children
Research Notes: Wife - Bertha of Burgundy
Husband Robert II "the Pious" King of France 36 37
AKA: Robert Sanctus King of France, Robert Capet Sanctus, King of France
Born: 27 Mar 972 - Orléans, Orléanais, (Loiret), France
Christened:
Died: 20 Jul 1031 - Melun, (Seine-et-Marne), Île-de-France, France
Buried:
Father: Hugh Capet King of France (0941-0996) 38 39
Mother: Adelaide de Poitou (Abt 0945-1006) 23 40
Marriage: 995
Other Spouse: Rosela of Ivrea ( - ) 41 - Bef Apr 988
Other Spouse: Constance of Provence (Abt 0986-1032) 42 43 - 998
Wife Bertha of Burgundy 31
Born: Abt 964
Christened:
Died: After 1010
Buried:
Father: Conrad I King of Burgundy, King of West Franks (Abt 0925-0993) 32 33
Mother: Mathilda of France, Queen of Burgundy (0943-0992) 34 35
Other Spouse: Eudes I Count of Blois ( -0996) 30 - Abt 963
Children
Death Notes: Husband - Robert II "the Pious" King of France
Research Notes: Husband - Robert II "the Pious" King of France
From Wikipedia - Robert II of France:
Robert II (27 March 972 - 20 July 1031 ), called the Pious or the Wise, was King of France from 996 until his death. The second reigning member of the House of Capet , he was born in Orléans to Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine .
Co-rule with father
Immediately after his own coronation, Robert's father Hugh began to push for the coronation of Robert. "The essential means by which the early Capetians were seen to have kept the throne in their family was through the association of the eldest surviving son in the royalty during the father's lifetime," Andrew W. Lewis has observed, in tracing the phenomenon in this line of kings who lacked dynastic legitimacy.[1] Hugh's claimed reason was that he was planning an expedition against the Moorish armies harassing Borrel II of Barcelona , an invasion which never occurred, and that the stability of the country necessitated a co-king, should he die while on expedition.[2] Ralph Glaber , however, attributes Hugh's request to his old age and inability to control the nobility.[3] Modern scholarship has largely imputed to Hugh the motive of establishing a dynasty against the claims of electoral power on the part of the aristocracy, but this is not the typical view of contemporaries and even some modern scholars have been less sceptical of Hugh's "plan" to campaign in Spain.[4] Robert was eventually crowned on 30 December 987. A measure of Hugh's success is that when Hugh died in 996, Robert continued to reign without any succession dispute, but during his long reign actual royal power dissipated into the hands of the great territorial magnates.
Robert had begun to take on active royal duties with his father in the early 990s. In 991, he helped his father prevent the French bishops from trekking to Mousson in the Kingdom of Germany for a synod called by Pope John XV , with whom Hugh was then in disagreement.
Marital problems
As early as 989, having been rebuffed in his search for a Byzantine princess,[5]Hugh Capet arranged for Robert to marry the recently-widowed daughter of Berengar II of Italy , Rozala , who took the name of Susannah upon becoming Queen.[6] She was many years his senior. She was the widow of Arnulf II of Flanders , with whom she had children, the oldest of whom was of age to assume the offices of count of Flanders. Robert divorced her within a year of his father's death. He tried instead to marry Bertha , daughter of Conrad of Burgundy , around the time of his father's death. She was a widow of Odo I of Blois , but was also Robert's cousin. For reasons of consanguinity , Pope Gregory V refused to sanction the marriage, and Robert was excommunicated. After long negotiations with Gregory's successor, Sylvester II , the marriage was annulled.
Finally, in 1001, Robert entered into his final and longest-lasting marriage: to Constance of Arles , the daughter of William I of Provence . She was an ambitious and scheming woman, who made life miserable for her husband by encouraging her sons to revolt against their father.
Piety
Robert, however, despite his marital problems, was a very devout Catholic, hence his sobriquet "the Pious." He was musically inclined, being a composer, chorister, and poet, and making his palace a place of religious seclusion, where he conducted the matins and vespers in his royal robes. However, to contemporaries, Robert's "piety", resulted from his lack of toleration for heretics: he harshly punished them.
Children
Robert had no children from his short-lived marriage to Susanna. His illegal marriage to Bertha gave him one stillborn son in 999, but only Constance gave him surviving children:[7]
Robert also left an illegitimate son: Rudolph, Bishop of Bourges
Sources
Research Notes: Wife - Bertha of Burgundy
Husband Walter FitzRoger of Gloucester 44 45 46
AKA: Walter of Gloucester, Walter de Gloucester, Walter de Pitres
Born: Abt 1065 - <Gloucester, Gloucestershire, > England
Christened:
Died: 1129 - England
Buried:
Father: Roger de Pîtres (Abt 1035- ) 44 46
Mother: Eunice de Balun (Abt 1150- ) 45 46
Marriage:
Wife Bertha 45
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Miles de Pitres of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford 46 47 48
AKA: Miles de Gloucester 1st Earl of Hereford, Milo de Gloucester 1st Earl of Hereford
Born: Abt 1100 - <Gloucester, Gloucestershire, > England
Christened:
Died: 24 Dec 1143
Buried: - Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire, Wales
Spouse: Sibyl de Neufmarché (Abt 1096-After 1143) 46 49
Marr: 1121
Research Notes: Husband - Walter FitzRoger of Gloucester
Walter de Gloucester (also Walter FitzRoger or Walter de Pitres) (1065 - 1129) was an early Norman official of the King of England during the early years of the Norman conquest of the South Welsh Marches .
Lineage
He was the only son of Roger de Pitres and his wife, Eunice de Balun .
Titles
Walter de Gloucester was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire and lived in Gloucester Castle of which he was constable, making improvements to this early fortification.
Family
He was married to Bertha, a relative of Hamelin de Balun . They were the parents of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford and a daughter, Maud, who married a Roger FitzPons .
Birth Notes: Child - Miles de Pitres of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford
Husband Hugh II Count of Pontieu
Born:
Christened:
Died: 20 Nov 1052
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Bertha of Aumale
Born: - <Aumale, (Seine-Maritime), Normandy, France>
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Enguerrand II Count of Ponthieu
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1053 - Arques, <(Pas-de-Calais)>, France
Buried:
Spouse: Adelaide of Normandy, Countess of Aumale (Abt 1030-Between 1081/1090) 50 51 52
Research Notes: Husband - Hugh II Count of Pontieu
Research Notes: Wife - Bertha of Aumale
Death Notes: Child - Enguerrand II Count of Ponthieu
Husband Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor 10 53
AKA: Heinrich IV Holy Roman Emperor
Born: 11 Nov 1050 - Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Christened:
Died: 7 Aug 1106 - Liège, (Belgium)
Buried: Aug 1111 - Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, [Rhineland-Palatinate, ] Germany
Father: Henry III "the Black" Holy Roman Emperor (1017-1056) 54 55
Mother: Agnes of Poitou (Abt 1025-1077) 55
Marriage: 13 Jul 1066 - Trebur, (Groß-Gerau, Hesse, Germany)
Wife Bertha of Savoy 56 57
AKA: Bertha of Turin
Born: 21 Sep 1051
Christened:
Died: 27 Dec 1087 - Mainz, Germany
Buried: - Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, [Rhineland-Palatinate, ] Germany
Father: Eudes I Count of Maurienne and Savoy (Abt 1002-1060) 9 12
Mother: Alix Duchess of Turin (Abt 1015-1091) 11 12 13
Children
1 F Adelheid 57
AKA: Adelaide
Born: 1070
Christened:
Died: 4 Jun 1079
Buried:
2 M Henry
Born: 1071
Christened:
Died: 2 Aug 1071
Buried:
3 F Agnes of Germany 58
Born: 1072
Christened:
Died: 24 Sep 1143
Buried:
Spouse: Frederick I von Büren of Hohenstaufen, Duke of Alsace and Swabia (1050-1105)
Marr: 1089
Spouse: Leopold III Margrave of Austria (1073-1136) 59
Marr: abt or aft 1105
4 M Conrad King of Italy
Born: 12 Feb 1074
Christened:
Died: 27 Jul 1101
Buried:
5 M Henry V Holy Roman Emperor
Born: 8 Jan 1086
Christened:
Died: 23 May 1125
Buried:
Spouse: Empress Matilda Countess of Anjou (Abt 1102-1167) 60 61
Marr: 7 Jan 1114 - Worms, (Rhine-Palatinate, Germany)
Research Notes: Husband - Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor
Henry IV (November 11 , 1050 -August 7 , 1106 ) was King of Germany from 1056 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 until his forced abdication in 1105 . He was the third emperor of the Salian dynasty and one of the most powerful and important figures of the 11th century. His reign was marked by the Investiture Controversy with the Papacy and several civil wars with pretenders to his throne in Italy and Germany.
Biography
Regency
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 fidelity to his son. Three years later, still anxious to ensure 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 elected as king by Herman II , Archbishop of Cologne at Trebur . The coronation was held in Aachen in 1054 . When Henry III unexpectedly died in 1056 , the accession of the six-year-old Henry IV was not opposed by his vassals. The dowager Empress Agnes acted as regent, and, according to the will of the dead emperor, the German pope Victor II was named as her counsellor. The latter's death in 1057 soon showed the political ineptitude of Agnes, and the powerful influence held over her by German magnates and Imperial functionaries.
Agnes assigned the Duchy of Bavaria , given by her husband to Henry IV, to Otto of Nordheim . This deprived the young king of a solid base of power. Likewise, her decision to assign the Duchies of Swabia and Carinthia to Rudolf of Rheinfelden (who married her daughter) and Berthold of Zähringen , respectively, would prove mistakes, as both later rebelled against the king. Unlike Henry III, Agnes proved incapable of influencing the election of the new popes, Stephen IX and Nicholas II . The Papal alliance with the Normans of southern Italy, formed to counter the communal resistance in Rome, resulted in the deterioration of relations with the German King, as well as Nicholas' interference in the election of German bishops. Agnes also granted local magnates extensive territorial privileges that eroded the King's material power.
In 1062 the young king was kidnapped during a conspiracy of German nobles led by archbishop Anno II of Cologne . Henry, who was at Kaiserwerth, was persuaded to board a boat lying in the Rhine; it was immediately unmoored and the king sprang into the stream, but was rescued by one of the conspirators and carried to Cologne. Agnes retired to a convent, the government subsequently placed in the hands of Anno. His first move was to recognize the Pope Alexander II in his conflict with the antipope Honorius II , who had been initially recognized by Agnes but was subsequently left without support.
Anno's rule proved unpopular. The education and training of Henry were supervised by Anno, who was called his magister, while Adalbert of Hamburg , archbishop of Bremen , was styled Henry's patronus. Henry's education seems to have been neglected, and his willful and headstrong nature developed under the conditions of these early years. The malleable Adalbert of Hamburg soon became the confidant of the ruthless Henry. Eventually, during an absence of Anno from Germany, Henry managed to obtain the control of his civil duties, leaving Anno only with the ecclesiastical ones.
First years of rule and Saxon War
In March 1065 Henry was declared of age. The whole of his future reign was apparently 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.
In 1066 , one year after his enthroning at the age of fifteen, he expelled Adalbert of Hamburg, who had profited off his position for personal enrichment, from the Crown Council. Henry also adopted urgent military measures against the Slav pagans, who had recently invaded Germany and besieged Hamburg.
In June 1066 Henry married Bertha of Maurienne , daughter of Count Otto of Savoy , to whom he had been betrothed in 1055 . In the same year he assembled an army to fight, at the request of the Pope, the Italo-Normans of southern Italy. Henry's troops had reached Augsburg when he received news that Godfrey of Tuscany , husband of the powerful Matilda of Canossa , marchioness of Tuscany , had already attacked the Normans. Therefore the expedition was halted.
In 1068 , driven by his impetuous character and his infidelities, Henry attempted to divorce Bertha[1]. His peroration at a council in Mainz was however rejected by the Papal legate Pier Damiani , who hinted that any further insistence towards divorce would lead the new pope, Alexander II , to deny his coronation. Henry obeyed and his wife returned to Court, but he was convinced that the Papal opposition aimed only at overthrowing lay power within the Empire, in favour of an ecclesiastical hierarchy.
In the late 1060s Henry set up with strong determination to reduce any opposition and to enlarge the national boundaries. He led expeditions against the Liutici and the margrave of a district east of Saxony; and soon afterwards he had to quench the rebellions with Rudolf of Swabia and Berthold of Carinthia. Much more serious was Henry's struggle with Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria. This prince, who occupied an influential position in Germany and was one of the protagonists of Henry's early kidnapping, was accused in 1070 by a certain Egino of being privy to a plot to murder the king. It was decided that a trial by battle should take place at Goslar , but when the demand of Otto for a safe conduct for himself and his followers, to and from the place of meeting, was refused, he declined to appear. He was thereupon declared deposed in Bavaria, and his Saxon estates were plundered. He obtained sufficient support, however, to carry on a struggle with the king in Saxony and Thuringia until 1071 , when he submitted at Halberstadt . Henry aroused the hostility of the Thuringians by supporting Siegfried, archbishop of Mainz , in his efforts to exact tithes from them; but still more formidable was the enmity of the Saxons, who had several causes of complaint against the king. He was the son of one enemy, Henry III, and the friend of another, Adalbert of Bremen. He had ordered a restoration of all crown lands in Saxony and had built forts among this people, while the country was ravaged to supply the needs of his courtiers, and its duke Magnus was a prisoner in his hands. All classes were united against him, and when the struggle broke out in 1073 the Thuringians joined the Saxons. The war, which lasted with slight intermissions until 1088 , exercised a most potent influence upon Henry's fortunes elsewhere.
Investiture Controversy
Main article: Investiture Controversy
Initially in need of support for his expeditions in Saxony and Thuringia, Henry adhered to the Papal decrees in religious matters. His apparent weakness, however, had the side effect of spurring the ambitions of Gregory VII , a reformist monk elected as pontiff in 1073, for Papal hegemony.
The tension between Empire and Church culminated in the councils of 1074-1075, which constituted a substantial attempt to delegitimate Henry III's policy. Among other measures, they denied to secular rulers the right to place members of the clergy in office; this had dramatic effects in Germany, where bishops were often powerful feudatories who, in this way, were able to free themselves from imperial authority. Aside from the reacquisition of all lost privileges by the ecclesiasticals, the council's decision deprived the imperial crown of rights to almost half its lands, with grievous consequences for national unity, especially in peripheral areas like the Kingdom of Italy .
Suddenly hostile to Gregory, Henry did not relent from his positions: after his defeat of Otto of Nordheim, he continued to interfere in Italian and German episcopal life, naming bishops at his will and declaring papal provisions illegitimate. In 1075 Gregory excommunicated some members of the Imperial Court, and threatened to do the same with Henry himself. Further, in a synod held in February of that year, Gregory clearly established the supreme power of the Catholic Church, with the Empire subjected to it. Henry replied with a counter-synod of his own.
The beginning of the conflict known as the Investiture Controversy can be assigned to Christmas night of 1075: Gregory was kidnapped and imprisoned by Cencio I Frangipane , a Roman noble, while officiating at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Later freed by Roman people, Gregory accused Henry of having been behind the attempt. In the same year, the emperor had defeated a rebellion of Saxons in the First Battle of Langensalza , and was therefore free to accept the challenge.
At Worms, on January 24 , 1076 , a synod of bishops and princes summoned by Henry declared Gregory VII deposed. Hildebrand replied by excommunicating the emperor and all the bishops named by him on February 22 , 1076 . In October of that year a diet of the German princes in Tribur attempted to find a settlement for the conflict, conceding Henry a year to repent from his actions, before the ratification of the excommunication that the pope was to sign in Swabia some months later. Henry did not repent, and, counting on the hostility showed by the Lombard clergy against Gregory, decided to move to Italy. He spent Christmas of that year in Besançon and, together with his wife and his son, he crossed the Alps with help of the Bishop of Turin and reached Pavia .
Gregory, on his way to the diet of Augsburg , and hearing that Henry was approaching, took refuge in the castle of Canossa (near Reggio Emilia ), belonging to Matilda. Henry's troops were nearby.
Henry's intent, however, was apparently to perform the penance required to lift his excommunication and ensure his continued rule. The choice of an Italian location for the act of repentance, instead of Augsburg, was not accidental: it aimed to consolidate the Imperial power in an area partly hostile to the Pope; to lead in person the prosecution of events; and to oppose the pact signed by German feudataries and the Pope in Tribur with the strong German party that had deposed Gregory at Worms, through the concrete presence of his army.
He stood in the snow outside the gates of the castle of Canossa for three days, from January 25 to January 27 , 1077 , begging the pope to rescind the sentence (popularly portrayed as without shoes, taking no food or shelter, and wearing a hairshirt - see Walk of Canossa ). The Pope lifted the excommunication, imposing a vow to comply with certain conditions, which Henry soon violated.
Civil war and recovery
Rudolf of Rheinfeld , a two-time brother-in-law of Henry, took advantage of the momentary weakness of the Emperor by having himself declared antiking by a council of Saxon, Bavarian, and Carinthian princes in March of 1077 in Forchheim . Rudolf promised to respect the electoral concept of the monarchy and declared his willingness to be subservient to the pope.
Despite these difficulties, Henry's situation in Germany improved in the following years. When Rudolf was crowned at Mainz in May 1077, the population revolted and forced him to flee to Saxony, where he was deprived of his territories (later he was also stripped of Swabia). After the inconclusive battle of Mellrichstadt (August 7 , 1077 ) and the defeat of Flarchheim (27 January 1080 ) Gregory instead launched a second anathema against Henry in March 1080 . However, the evidence that Gregory's hate had such a personal connotation led much of Germany to re-embrace Henry's cause.
On October 14 , 1080 the armies of the two rival kings met at the Elster River , in the plain of Leipzig . Rudolf was mortally wounded and died soon afterwards, and the rebellion against Henry lost momentum. Another antiking , Henry of Luxembourg , was fought successfully by Frederick of Swabia , Rudolf's successor in Swabia who had married Henry's daughter Agnes . Henry convoked a synod of the highest German clergy in Bamberg and Brixen (June, 1080). Here Henry had Gregory (dubbed "The False Monk") again deposed and replaced by the primate of Ravenna , Guibert (the antipope Clement III ).
Second voyage to Italy
Henry entered in Pavia and was crowned here as King of Italy, receiving the Iron Crown . He also assigned a series of privileges to the Italian cities who had supported him, and marched against the hated Matilda, declaring her deposed for lese majesty and confiscating her possessions. Then he moved to Rome, which he besieged first in 1081 : he was however compelled to retire to Tuscany, where he granted privileges to various cities, and obtained monetary assistance (360,000 gold pieces)[2] from a new ally, the eastern emperor, Alexios I Komnenos , who aimed to thwart the Norman's aims against his empire. A second and equally unsuccessful attack on Rome was followed by a war of devastation in northern Italy with the adherents of Matilda; and towards the end of 1082 the king made a third attack on Rome. After a siege of seven months the Leonine city fell into his hands. A treaty was concluded with the Romans, who agreed that the quarrel between king and pope should be decided by a synod, and secretly bound themselves to induce Gregory to crown Henry as emperor, or to choose another pope. Gregory, however, shut up in Castel Sant'Angelo , would hear of no compromise; the synod was a failure, as Henry prevented the attendance of many of the pope's supporters; and the king, in pursuance of his treaty with Alexios, marched against the Normans. The Romans soon fell away from their allegiance to the pope; and, recalled to the city, Henry entered Rome in March 1084, after which Gregory was declared deposed and Clement was recognized by the Romans. On 31 March 1084 Henry was crowned emperor by Clement, and received the patrician authority. His next step was to attack the fortresses still in the hands of Gregory. The pope was saved by the advance of Robert Guiscard , duke of Apulia, who left the siege of Durazzo and marched towards Rome: Henry left the city and Gregory could be freed. The latter however died soon later at Salerno (1085), not before a last letter in which he exhorted the whole Christianity to a crusade against the emperor.
Feeling secure of his success in Italy, Henry returned to Germany.
The Emperor spent 1084 in a show of power in Germany, where the reforming instances had still ground due to the predication of Otto of Ostia, advancing up to Magdeburg in Saxony . He also declared the Peace of God in all the Imperial territories to quench any sedition. On March 8 , 1088 Otto of Ostia was elected pope as Victor III : with the Norman support, he excommunicated Henry and Clement III, who was defined "a beast sprung out from the earth to wage war against the Saints of God". He also formed a large coalition against the Holy Roman Empire, including, aside from the Normans, the Rus of Kiev , the Lombard communes of Milan , Cremona , Lodi and Piacenza and Matilda of Canossa, who had she remarried to Welf II of Bavaria , therefore creating a concentration of power too formidable to be neglected by the emperor.
Internecine wars and death
In 1088 Henry of Luxembourg died and Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen , a longtime enemy of the emperor's, proclaimed himself the antiking's successor. Henry had him condemned by a Saxon diet and then a national one at Quedlinburg and Regensburg respectively, but was defeated by Egbert when a relief army came to the margrave's rescue during the siege of Gleichen . Egbert was murdered two years later (1090 ) and his ineffectual insurrection and royal pretensions fell apart.
Henry then launched his third punitive expedition in Italy. After some initial success against the lands of Canossa, his defeat in 1092 caused the rebellion of the Lombard communes. The insurrection extended when Matilda managed to turn against him his elder son, Conrad , who was crowned King of Italy at Monza in 1093 . The Emperor therefore found himself cut off from Germany. He could return there only in 1097 : in Germany his power wall still at its height, as Welf V of Bavaria separated from Matilda and Bavaria gave back to Welf IV .
Henry reacted by deposing Conrad at the diet of Mainz in April 1098, and designating his younger son Henry (future Henry V) as successor, under the oath sworn that he would never follow his brother's example.
The situation in the Empire remained chaotic, worsened by the further excommunication against Henry launched by the new pope Paschal II , a follower of Gregory VII's reformation ideals elected in the August of 1099. But this time the emperor, meeting with some success in his efforts to restore order, could afford to ignore the papal bana. A successful campaign in Flanders was followed in 1103 by a diet at Mainz, where serious efforts were made to restore peace, and Henry IV himself promised to go on crusade. But this plan was shattered by the revolt of his son Henry in 1104 , who, encouraged by the adherents of the pope, declared he owed no allegiance to an excommunicated father. Saxony and Thuringia were soon in arms, the bishops held mainly to the younger Henry, while the emperor was supported by the towns. A desultory warfare was unfavourable, however, to the emperor, who was taken as prisoner at an alleged reconciliation meeting at Koblenz . At a diet held in Mainz in December, Henry IV was forced to resign to his crown, being subsequently imprisoned in the castle of Böckelheim . Here he was also obliged that he had unjustly persecuted Gregory VII and to have illegally named Clement III.
When these conditions became known in Germany, a vivid movement of dissension spread. In 1106 the loyal party set up a large army to fight Henry V and Paschal. Henry IV managed to escape to Cologne from his jail, finding a considerable support in the lower Rhineland . He also entered into negotiations with England , France and Denmark .
Henry was also able to defeat his son's army near Visé, in Lorraine, on March 2 , 1106 . He however died soon afterwards after nine days of illness, while he was guest of his friend Othbert, Bishop of Liège . He was 56.
His body was buried by the bishop of Liege with suitable ceremony, but by command of the papal legate it was unearthed, taken to Speyer and placed in the at that time unconsecrated chapel of Saint Afra that was build on the side of the Imperial Cathedral . After being released from the sentence of excommunication, the remains were buried in the Speyer cathedral in August 1111 .
Evaluation
Henry IV was known for licentious behaviour in his early years, being described as careless and self-willed. In his later life, he displayed much diplomatic ability. His abasement at Canossa can be regarded as a move of policy to weaken the pope's position at the cost of a personal humiliation to himself. He was always regarded as a friend of the lower orders, was capable of generosity and gratitude, and showed considerable military skill.
Marriages
Henry's wife Bertha died on December 27 , 1087 . She was also buried at the Speyer Cathedral . Their children were:
Agnes of Germany (born 1072 ), married Frederick I von Staufen , Duke of Swabia .
Conrad (February 12 , 1074 -July 27 , 1101 )
Adelaide, died in infancy
Henry, died in infancy
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
In 1089 Henry married Eupraxia of Kiev , a daughter of Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev , and sister to his son Vladimir II Monomakh , prince of Kievan Rus . She assumed the name "Adelaide" upon her coronation. In 1094 she joined the rebellion against Henry, accusing him of holding her prisoner, forcing her to participate in orgies, and attempting a black mass on her naked body.
Notes
^ Bertha in the meantime had retired to the Abbey of Lorscheim .
^ J. Norwich, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, 21
Research Notes: Wife - Bertha of Savoy
Bertha of Savoy, also called Bertha of Turin (21 September 1051 - 27 December 1087 in Mainz) was the first wife of Emperor Henry IV , and was German Queen and Holy Roman Empress. She is buried in the cathedral of Speyer.
Life
Bertha of Savoy was a daughter of Otto of Savoy (also called Eudes and Odo) and Adelaide of Susa . Her maternal grandparents were Ulric Manfred II of Turin and Bertha of the Obertenghi .
As children, during the lifetime of Emperor Henry III , Bertha and Henry IV were betrothed on 25 December 1055 in Zürich . The wedding took place on 13 July 1066 in Trebur . While Bertha was apparently in love with Henry from the outset, Henry initially viewed his wife with aversion. Although she was apparently a pretty young woman, the Saxon chronicler Bruno, an avowed opponent of Henry IV, reported on the Emperor's continual unfaithfulness: "He had two or three Kebsweiber (concubines ) at the same time, in addition [to his wife], yet he was not content. If he heard that someone had a young and pretty daughter or wife, he instructed that she be supplied to him by force. (...) His beautiful and noble wife Bertha (...) was in such a manner hated by him that he never saw her after the wedding any more than necessary, since he had not celebrated the wedding out of free will."
In 1069, Henry began procedures for a divorce, supplying what was for the time an unusually honest reason for the divorce: "The king explained publicly (before the princes), that his relationship with his wife was not good; for a long time he had deceived others, but now he did not want to do so any longer. He could not accuse her of anything that justified a divorce, but he was not capable of carrying out conjugal relations with her any longer. He asked them for the sake of God to remove him from the bonds of a marriage closed under bad signs ... so that the way to a luckier marriage might be opened. And nobody knowing any objection to raise, and his wife being an obstacle to a second marriage ceremony, he then swore that she was as he received her, unstained and her virginity intact." (Bruno of Merseburg)
The German episcopacy dared not submit to the King's demands, and called on Pope Alexander II for assistance. He sent Petrus Damiani as his Legate to the Synod in Frankfurt, and rejected the divorce. Henry then apparently submitted to his fate, his first daughter by Bertha being born in the year after the divorce attempt.
Bertha also accompanied her husband on his dangerous journey to Canossa , carrying her three-year-old son Conrad. She remained with her husband between 25-28 January 1077 in freezing cold weather before the walls of the castle, in order to reach the solution to Henry's dispute with the Pope. Together with Henry, Bertha later also journeyed to Rome , and on 31 March 1084 was crowned Empress.
On 27 December 1087, Bertha died in Mainz.
Children
From her marriage with Henry there were eventually five children:
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Husband Pepin King of Italy and Lombardy 62 63
Born: Apr 773
Christened: 12 Apr 781 - Rome, (Italy)
Died: 8 Jul 810 - Milan, Italy
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Father: Charlemagne King of France, Emperor of Rom (0747-0814) 64 65 66 67
Mother: Hildegard of Vinzgouw (Abt 0758-0783) 23 68 69 70
Marriage: Bef 800
Other Spouse: < > [Daughter of Duke Bernard] ( - ) 71
Wife Bertha
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Christening Notes: Husband - Pepin King of Italy and Lombardy
Research Notes: Husband - Pepin King of Italy and Lombardy
Source: familysearch.org (Kevin Bradford) has b. Apr 777.
Wikipedia has b. April 773.
From Wikipedia - Pepin of Italy :
Pepin (April 773 - 8 July 810 ) was the son of Charlemagne and king of Italy (781 -810) under the authority of his father.
Pepin was the third son of Charlemagne , and the second with his wife Hildegard . He was born Carloman, but when his brother Pepin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pepin passed to him. He was made king of Italy after his father's conquest of the Lombards , in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy .
He was active as ruler of Italy and worked to expand the Frankish empire. In 791 , he marched a Lombard army into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia , while his father marched along the Danube into Avar territory. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt in 792 . Pepin and Duke Eric of Friuli continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds. The great Ring of the Avars, their capital fortress, was taken twice. The booty was sent to Charlemagne in Aachen and redistributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia .
His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pepin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pepin died.
He married Bertha, daughter of William of Gellone , count of Toulouse , and had five daughters with her (Adelaide , married Lambert I of Nantes ; Atala; Gundrada; Bertha; and Tetrada), all of whom but the eldest were born between 800 and Pepin's death and died before their grandfather's death in 814 . Pepin also had an illegitimate son Bernard . Pepin was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased him. The Italian crown passed on to his son Bernard, but the empire went to Pepin's younger brother Louis the Pious .
Research Notes: Wife - Bertha
Husband Rudolph II of Burgundy 72
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Died: 11 Jul 937
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Father: Rudolph I King of Burgundy (0859-0912) 73
Mother: Guilla of Provence ( -Bef 0924) 74
Marriage: 922
Wife Bertha of Swabia 75
Born: Abt 907
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Died: After 2 Jan 966
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1 M Conrad I King of Burgundy, King of West Franks 32 33
Born: Abt 925
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Died: 19 Oct 993
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Spouse: Mathilda of France, Queen of Burgundy (0943-0992) 34 35
Marr: 964
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