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Henry IV, illumination from the manuscript Ekkehardi historia, c. 1113; in possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
The parents of Henry IV were the Holy Roman emperor Henry III and his second wife, Agnes of Poitou.12
Following the death of Henry III in 1056, Agnes served as regent for her son, who was six years old at the time, until her regency was ended in 1062.123