HEN 'R Yo 
fatisfadtory proof of her innocence may be doubted, fince it 
known that the emperor, though married to her, 
lived in a perpetual fate of continence, fo that, fays the 
Hes pad died in 1021, after a sececoats but << 
The reverence in which he held 
nions. 
reign of t 
he and his emprefs have been enrolled among the Romifh 
faints. 
Henry III. emperor, furnamed the Black, —. 
to the sel at the deceafe of his father Conrad II. 
1039. Scarcely had he afcended the gabe when he 
vo competitor, nye 
foal ne the peat that the cotencing claims were 
for atime quieted. Another war in Hungary employed his 
arms, which was — by troubles in Bavaria, occa- 
fioned by the tyrannical government of its young duke. 
‘ Henry, without perere divelted him: of his dominions, 
which he conferred on his own fon, chen an infant. 2 
1055, the prs soe a vifited Italy, and was prefent in 
council held at nce, ~— after a progrefs threigh the 
At this period, 
or 
i) 
Henry I ceffor to 
ceding, was but fix years old when his father died ~ the 
regency was a to lis mother, the emprefs A gnes, 
who became unpop becaufe fhe had not power to pre- 
for the holy fee, which at length 
€ pre- 
vent many inteltine commotions and was accordingly dif- 
‘eg effed of her Sevcnid in 1062. The guardianfhip of 
young em committed to the archbifhops of 
olan: and Dice, vie latter of whom has been accufed 
¢ the young prince in every {pecies of licen- 
tioufn order to maintain an influence overhim. Henry 
_ early Ree eeTts himfelf by a native courage, and when he 
aing re of mawhood he took up his refidence at 
ey, with the exprefs sa of quelling the 
e ings which ng prevailed in that countr 
‘this end he erected a number of cattles, which obliged 
ito la 
confeder 
agaiift h his authority. Ana ent foon followed: but his 
‘repeated 1 mnifconduct t depri el “0S ‘the attachment of his 
t 
empire met together to 
folemn m promifes of amendment, 
| Saxons fol- 
Henry in perfor: gave cnet a terrible defeat,. 
ss png his victory, made himfelf maiter of the whole 
acy? 
the princes 
eoniider on on the Laer: ‘of his depofition ; but he heard of rei 
- with pope Palthal, concerning 
country, and réduced: them ‘to fue’ for peace on art 
In the mean time, Hildebrand had been elevated to t Bet 
dom under the name of Gregory:VII. to which, though not 
“sates to the emperor, he did not think proper to object. 
“he s of the cid were levelled at the ems 
peror ; ee and other infults he for fome time bore with 
apparent patience, till at senath Gregory _ fummoned 
him to appear at Rome, to anfwer to various accufa- 
tions with which he ftood charged. Henry, in his turn, 
caufed the pope to be folemnly depofed at an affembly of 
prelates at Worms in 1 » to. be revenged on 
his adverfary, depofed and excommunicated the =o a 
civil war enfued, in which Henry, deferted by his o ar- 
sili on whom he depended, was reduced to (cathie himfelé 
as the only refource of faving his crown. He went to Italy 
3 and made his ao but Gregory was not to be ap- 
peafed. (See Grecory.) Henry now refolved upon ven- 
The aay chofe Rodolphus duke of Suabia, 
and the pope confirmed the title, but Henry attacked and 
defeated his competitor, and put him to death. etl 
called a council, which depofed the pope, and eleéted in 
= room the archbifhop of Raventia. In 10 his fon 
aflumed the eS and feized upon the imperial trea- 
: hace at Spires, but finding that his father was “Tikely, to 
prove the ftrongett, he affe&ted remorfe, threw himfelf at 
emperor's aoe obtained forgivenefs, and then perfuaded 
him to difband th the army. _ oon as this was done, he cone 
an aflemb 
rigour. 
aged monarch from his throne, 
royal robes. In the midft of this outrage, Henry, with 
“ee trickling down his cheeks, exclaim ed, < 
thou art truly the God of vengeance! I hav 
fefs, and have merited this fhame by the follies of my 
and thou wilt not fail to punith traitors for their perjury a 
ingratitude.’’. His mind was afterwards fo far overcome by 
the accumulation of his misfortunes, that he mad2 a volun- 
tary refignation of the crown in his fon’s favour, befeechings 
at the — time, an abfolution from the fentence of excom- 
municatio This was refufed, and it redounds to the in- 
famy of his fon, and of the times in whtich he lived, that the. 
depofed emperor was fuffered to want the common neceilt- 
ries life, He was reduced fo’far as to folicit from = 
bifhop of Spires an office in the cathedral, which he he himfelt: 
This was. anet and the humi- 
ee 
dear friends, for I am touched with a hand o 
After a long confinement and enduring muc 
efcaped, to Cologne, where he was once more ac 
emperor, and fortune feemed difpofed 
him, when eS died in the pes year of. his age. 
' molt ferious deitheada si : 
of active cna, which had been tried in ixty-two b 
at which he was perfonally prefent. He poflele ed met 
eminent qualities, he was mild and clemen t in his, Gg fs 
and fi tceatiouliels of his 
larly charitable, but the 
laid a foundation for the misfortunes and nd. difgraces 
ia Na emperor, iin it the preceding 2 ee 
1081, and feized, as we have feen, pate 
upon the ‘ai 
After the death of his father he became Hnvolved in pre er 
‘the bufinels: of i invellil nt 
carsaminication was “thes ; 
perienc 
races of bis 
