biography
pronunciation:
[hiynrikh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1017–56)
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| biography:
| Holy Roman emperor (1039–56), born in Osterbeck, Germany. He became King of the Germans (1026), Duke of Bavaria (1027), Duke of Schwaben (1038), and emperor (1039). In 1043 he married Agnes von Poitou, and by repeated campaigns in Hungary established the supremacy of the empire in 1044. He supported the efforts of the Cluniac monks to reform the ecclesiastical system of Europe, and elected Clement II as pope (1046). He promoted learning and the arts, and founded many monastic schools and churches. |
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