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1056 Unfortunately for Henry 4th/ he reigned at the period when the Popes began to aim at absolute Sovereignty over all the Princes of Christendom, & tho he exerted the courage & ability with which he was amply endowed to extricate himself he became their Kitim. He was first excomunicated by Gregory 4th/ who had forbid him to grant Ecclesiastical preferments (the Investiture) he submitted to do penance & received absolution. but was again excomunicated: schism & Confusion pervaded the Empire his own Son Conrad rebelled against him, & after his death Henry (his 2d/ Son & Kg of the Romans) also revolted, & having treacherously made his Father Prisoner, caused him to be deprosed, & himself to be Elected in his stead. Henry 4th/ was reduced to the greatest Poverty; He died in 1106. & his Inhuman Son denied him Christian burial; till five years afterwards, when he had himself quarelled with the Pope. 1106.
