Heinrich King of Germany Holy Roman Emperor
- Born: 11 Nov 1050, Goslar 160
- Marriage: Bertha de Savoie on 13 Jul 1066 160
- Died: 7 Aug 1106, Ličge at age 55 160
- Buried: Cathâedrale de Speyer
 General Notes:
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 45:23 160, Henry IV, King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor, married Bertha of Turin, daughter of Eudes I, Count of Maurienne and Chablis, Margrave of Susa, by Alex Duchess of Turin, daughter of Olderich Manfred II, Margrave of Turin by Berta, daughter of Margrave Adalrich Manfred.
Noted events in his life were:
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Henry IV, born 11 Nov 1050 presumably at the palace of Goslar in Saxony, and died in Liege 7 Aug 1106, was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1084 to 1105. He belongs to the dynasty of Saliens.
On Jul 17, 1054 in Aachen, his father Henry III crowned him as associate king of Germania. At the death of the latter in Oct 1056, he reigned as king of Germany under the regency of his mother Agnes of Aquitaine (de Poitou) until 1062, then until its majority in Mar 1065 under the regency of Annon, archbishop of Cologne. On 31 Mar 1084 in Rome, he was crowned emperor by Pope Clement III. In 1105, his youngest son Henry, enjoying the support of Pope Pascal II, rebelled and forced him to abdicate on Dec 31.
Henry IV had five children from his first marriage with Berthe of Turin (de Savoie):
• Adelaide
• Henri (born 1st or 2nd August 1071 † 2nd August 1071), buried at Harzburg Castle
• Agnčs married as her first husband Frederick I, Duke of Swabia (Hohenstaufen), and as her second husband, the margrave of Austria Leopold III
• Duke Conrad of Lower Lotharingia, chief of the Holy Roman Empire from 1087 to 1098, who married Constance of Sicily, daughter of Count Roger I of Sicily and Apulia
• Henry V (1086 † 1125), King of the Romans in 1098, Emperor from 1111 to 1125, married to Mathilde d'Angleterre, daughter of King Henry I of England
On the death of Berthe on 27 Dec 1087, Henry IV married on 14 Aug 1089 Adelaide of Kiev, daughter of the Grand Duke of Kiev Vsevolod I and widow of Count Henry III (1st) of Stade, Adelaide then retired to a monastery in Kiev.
Heinrich married Bertha de Savoie, daughter of Eudes I comte Savoie Marquis de Suze et Ivres and Adélaide di Suza, on 13 Jul 1066.160 (Bertha de Savoie was born on 21 Sep 1051 in Turin,160 died on 27 Dec 1087 in Mainz 160 and was buried in Cathâedrale de Speyer 1017.)
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