Henry V Holy Roman Emperor 1081-1125

In June 1066 [his father] Henry Holy Roman Emperor [aged 15] and [his mother] Bertha Savoy [aged 14] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Henry "Black Pious" Salian III Holy Roman Emperor and [his grandmother] Agnes Poitiers.

On 11th August 1081 (possibly 1086) Henry V Holy Roman Emperor was born to Henry Holy Roman Emperor [aged 30] and Bertha Savoy [aged 29].

On 27th December 1087 [his mother] Bertha Savoy [aged 36] died.

On 7th August 1106 [his father] Henry Holy Roman Emperor [aged 55] died. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral [Map]. As a consequence of Henry Holy Roman Emperor having been excommunicated he was moved six days later to an unconsecrated chapel near Liège.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1109. In this year was the [his future father-in-law] King Henry [aged 41] at Christmas and at Easter in Normandy; and before Pentecost he came to this land, and held his court at Westminster. There were the conditions fully settled, and the oaths sworn, for giving his [his future wife] daughter [aged 6]¹³⁷ to the emperor [aged 27].¹³⁸

Note 137. Matilda, Mathilde, or Maud.

Note 138. Henry V. of Germany, the son of Henry IV.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1110. This year before Lent the [his future father-in-law] king [aged 42] sent his [his future wife] daughter [aged 7] with manifold treasures over sea, and gave her to the emperor [aged 28].

On 13th April 1111 Henry V Holy Roman Emperor [aged 29] was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

On 7th January 1114 Henry V Holy Roman Emperor [aged 32] and Empress Matilda [aged 11] were married. She by marriage Holy Roman Empress. The difference in their ages was 20 years. She the daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 46] and Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England [aged 34]. They were fourth cousin once removed.

In 1119 [his brother-in-law] William Adelin Duke Normandy [aged 15] and Matilda of Anjou [aged 8] were married. She the daughter of Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem [aged 30] and Ermengarde of Maine Countess of Anjou. He the son of [his father-in-law] King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 51] and [his mother-in-law] Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England. They were fourth cousin once removed.

In June 1119 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester [aged 20] and Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester were married at Lisieux, Calvados, Basse Normandie. She by marriage Countess Gloucester. He the illegitmate son of [his father-in-law] King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 51] and Daughter Gay.

Before 1120 Routrou "The Great" Chateaudun III Count Perche [aged 39] and [his illegitimate sister-in-law] Matilda Fitzroy Countess Perche were married. She by marriage Countess Perche. She the illegitmate daughter of [his father-in-law] King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 51]. He the son of Geoffrey Chateaudun II Count Mortain III Count Perche and Beatrix de Ramerupt Montdidier Countess Mortain and Perche.

Around August 1120 [his brother-in-law] William Adelin Duke Normandy [aged 16] was appointed Duke Normandy.

In 1121 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester [aged 22] was created 1st Earl Gloucester.

On 21st July 1122 [his illegitimate sister-in-law] Sybilla Fitzroy Queen Consort Scotland [aged 30] died.

Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. 23rd May 1125. The emperor Henry [aged 43] died, and was buried at Speyer, where his grandfather was also interred. Lothaire, the ninety-eighth emperor of the Romans, reigned thirteen years.

Chronicle of William Nangis. Emperor Henry, moved by repentance, abandoned the empire and, withdrawn from the knowledge of men, was afterwards neither seen nor recognized. Some, however, said that he was seen at Angers in a hospital for the poor and, having been recognized by his wife through confession, died and was buried there. Elsewhere it is written that, while coming to celebrate Pentecost at Utrecht, he died of the dragon's disease¹, to which he had been subject from birth. His body, the entrails having been removed and sprinkled with salt, was taken to Speyer.

Note 1. Henry, V Holy Roman Emperor, died at Utrecht on 23rd May 1125, leaving the empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, king of England, a widow without children.

Henricus imperator poenitentia ductus, reliquit imperium et ab hominum noticia sublatus, nee postea visus est vel cognitus. Tamen quidam dixerunt quod apud Andegavis, in hospitali pauperum visus, et per confessionem ab uxore sua cognitus, mortuus et sepultus est. Alibi vero legitur quod Pentecostem celebraturus veniens apud Ultrajectum, morbo dracunculi, qui sibi erat nativus, periit (i). Cujus corpus, ejectis intestinis, sale respersum, Spirae delatum est.

1. Henri V mourut à Utrecht le 23 mai de l'an 1125, laissant veuve sans enfants l'impératrice Mathilde, fille de Henri Ie., roi d'Angleterre.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1126. All this year was the [his former father-in-law] King Henry [aged 58] in Normandy-all till after harvest. Then came he to this land, betwixt the Nativity of St. Mary [8th September 1126] and Michaelmas [29th September 1126]. With him came the queen [aged 23], and his daughter [aged 23], whom he had formerly given to the Emperor Henry of Lorrain to wife. And he brought with him the Earl Waleram [aged 22], and Hugh, the son of Gervase [aged 28]. And the earl he sent to Bridgenorth [Map] in captivity: and thence he sent him afterwards to Wallingford, Oxfordshire [Map]; and Hugh to Windsor Castle [Map], whom he ordered to be kept in strong bonds.

On 17th June 1128 Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy [aged 14] and [his former wife] Empress Matilda [aged 26] were married in Le Mans by the bishops of Le Mans and Séez. See Nangis: She the daughter of [his former father-in-law] King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 60] and [his former mother-in-law] Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England. He the son of Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem [aged 39] and Ermengarde of Maine Countess of Anjou. They were fourth cousin once removed.

On 10th September 1167 Empress Matilda [aged 65] died. She was buried under the high alter at Bec Abbey [Map] during a service performed by Archbishop Rotrou. Her tomb's epitaph reads 'Great by birth, greater by marriage, greatest in her offspring: here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry'.