Heinrich III. (HRR)

Heinrich III., miniature around 1040

Heinrich III. (* 28. October 1017 ; † 5. October 1056 in Bodfeld, resin) from the family of the Salier was from 1039 to its death 1056 German king andsince 1046 emperors of the holy Roman realm.

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lives

seals emperors Heinrichs III.
Mono gram of Heinrichs III.: Personal is only the horizontal line (carrying out line)

Heinrich became 1017 as a son of Konrad II. and Gisela of Swabia born, thus before these 1024 to the king one had chosen. It received comprehensive training and systematically for the succession to the throne was prepared, by it promptly at government actionsits father taken part was. As large and schwarzhaarig (therefore it probably its occasional surname “the black one”) described, the beard carried he is grown to Heinrich in accordance with the mode sheared.

From 1027 to 1042 he was duke of Bavaria, of 1038 to 1045 duke of Swabia. To 14. April 1028 let it crown its father by archbishop Pilgrim of Cologne in Aachen to the German king. In the autumn 1038 he became king of Burgund. it stepped 1039 then alsoa throne setting the follow-up of its father on. On a Königsumritt in the actual sense, but he visited done without Heinrich in the years 1039/40 all realm country and made government actions. it subjected Böhmen to 1041 and brought Hungary under the leaning sovereignty of the realm.After the death of his cousin duke Konrad II. from Kärnten in the same year he administered also this duchy up to the year 1047 . Heinrich had arguments relating to domestic affairs again and again with the duke of Lorraine, Gottfried the Bärtigen to exist.

On the Synoden of Sutri (starting from 20. December 1046) and Rome (starting from 23. ) It set the three Popes Gregor VI. for December 1046 in agreement with the Cluniazensi reform movement., Benedikt IX and Silvester III. off and a Cluniazenser, Suitgerof Bamberg, as a Pope. This became to 25. December 1046 as Clemens II. in Rome and crowned in its first official act Heinrich III. inthronisiert. and its second wife Agnes from Poitou to emperor and empress. Clemens II. followlater with Damasus II., Leo IX. and Viktor II. three further German Popes used by Heinrich.

Heinrich was twice married. His first Mrs. Gunhild of Denmark, daughter Knuts of the large one, which it in June 1036, probablyto 29. , married had, died to 18. July 1038 at malaria. It was buried in the monastery Limburg. To 20. He married November 1043 in Ingelheim Agnes of Poitou, with which he had six children. By Agnes it could Contacts for church reform movement in Cluny attach.

Heinrichs son Heinrich IV. followed it at the age of six years as a king. Its daughter Judith (Judith of Hungary) married king Salomon of Hungary and after its death duke Wladyslaw I.Herman of Poland.

Heinrich lies buried in the emperor cathedral in Speyer, its Inteste (heart and entrails) in the Ulrichskapelle the imperial palace Goslar is kept.

effect

Die Grabkrone von Heinrichs III. Aus der Domschatzkammer des Dom zu Speyer
the grave crown of Heinrichs III. From the cathedral vault cathedral to Speyer

In the person Heinrichs III. the fusion of lay (regnum) finds and religious (sacerdotium) rule its high point and experiences at the same time a crucial turning point.

Heinrich binds on the one hand the realm church completely closely actually and uses it as power factor. This becomes clearin numerous Bischofsinvestituren, with those Heinrich on its Hofkapellane for example pin „the pc. Simon and Judas “in Goslar fall back (among other things Anno of Cologne) and by the off and installation of the Popes mentioned above.

On the other hand the low-religious makes itselfHeinrich ideas of the Cluninazensi reform movement absolutely too own and turns against Simonie (it sits down thereby also clearly against its father off) and makes themselves strong for the Zölibat and the peace movement. Also it released the papacythe involving with the Roman aristocracy and universal validity provides for it. Thus however it caused the problems, with those its son, Heinrich IV., later in the Investiturstreit to fight had and one renewed drifting apart of lay and religious poweras a consequence had.

descendants

over the birthdays and - locate, even over the order of the descendants Heinrichs III., is little well-known. From extensive source study Mechthild Black Veltrup deduced the following order, it in their in the literature datapublications mentioned plausibly justifies:

From first marriage with Gunhild of Denmark, daughter of Knut the large one:

From second marriage with Agnes of Poitou:

sources

literature

  • bad yard, Egon: „The Salier “. - 4. , act. Aufl. - Stuttgart (among other things): Kohl hammer, 2000. - ISBN 3-17-016475-9
  • Laudage, Johannes: The Salier: The first GermanKing house. - Munich: Beck, 2006. - ISBN 3-406-53597-6
  • Bernd gumption Mueller/Stefan Weinfurter (Hrsg.): The German rulers of the Middle Ages. Historical one of haven advice of Heinrich I. to Maximilian I. Beck, Munich 2003 ISBN 3-406-50958-4
  • Black, Mechthild: The daughters Heinrichs III. and the empressAgnes. - in: Vinculum Societatis: Anniversary publication for Joachim Wollasch, 1991. - S. 36 - 57
  • Black Veldtrup, Mechthild: Empress Agnes (1043-1077): Source-critical studies. - Cologne: Böhlau Verl., 1995

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Predecessor
Konrad II.
List of the Roman GermansRuler successor
Heinrich IV.


 

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