biography
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| lived:
| (1050–1106)
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| biography:
| Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1106). He was crowned King of Germany while still an infant (1053), under the regency of his mother. He came of age in 1066, and began to assert his own authority soon afterwards. Twice excommunicated (1076, 1080) by Pope Gregory VII, he attacked Rome and installed an antipope (Clementine III) and had himself proclaimed emperor. Meanwhile, his son Conrad had been elected king in Germany and rebelled unsuccessfully against him. Conrad was replaced by Henry's second son, Henry V, who promptly imprisoned his father and forced him to abdicate. |
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