Henry V (emperor)

Ekkehard of Aura, recording under 1106 the death of the emperor whom his own party called Henry the fourth, says that the dead man’s supporters then submitted to the king and that he was later laid to rest at Speyer in the presence of his son (Ekkehard of Aura, Chronicle 1106 (p. 239)). That son came to Rome in February 1111 to be crowned emperor. Ekkehard of Aura reports that he accepted the pope’s offer to exchange investiture for the return of the crown’s lands, on condition that the church and the princes agreed, and that when the princes rose in protest the pope was held under guard until the coronation should take place (Ekkehard of Aura, Chronicle 1111 (p. 244)). In April Paschal II granted him investiture with staff and ring and addressed him as emperor (Paschal II, privileges for Henry V (1111) privilege of 12 April).

In 1122 at Worms he renounced that investiture, speaking in his charter of the losses of the Roman church “in the time of my father” and in his own (Concordat of Worms edict of the emperor). Ekkehard says that he was then received back into communion and that everyone went home rejoicing (Ekkehard of Aura, Chronicle 1122 (pp. 259–260)).