Who helped arrange Henry IV’s reconciliation with Gregory VII at Canossa?

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Gregory VII excommunicating Henry IV — St. Gregory VII Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.

Countess Matilda of Canossa and Abbot Hugh of Cluny, who was also Henry IV’s godfather, interceded for the emperor to help arrange his reconciliation with Pope Gregory VII at the castle of Canossa in January 1077.1