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Henry IV, illumination from the manuscript Ekkehardi historia, c. 1113; in possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
During the childhood of Henry IV, his mother, Agnes of Poitou, served as regent from 1056 to 1062.12
Following the death of Henry III in 1056, Agnes assumed the regency for her six-year-old son. Her tenure as regent ended in 1062 after Anno, the archbishop of Cologne, kidnapped the young king during a court assembly at Kaiserswerth and took control of the government.12