Anno II
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Anno II was Archbishop of Cologne from 1056 until his death. From 1063 to 1065 he acted as regent of the Holy Roman Empire for the minor Emperor Henry IV. Anno is venerated as a saint of the Catholic
Anno showing monasteries he established in a copy of the Vita Annonis Minor
Archbishop Anno instates Erpho, first abbot of Michaelsberg Abbey, 12th century manuscript
Shrine in Michaelsberg Abbey, Siegburg
Coup of Kaiserswerth
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The Coup of Kaiserswerth in 1062 was a thitherto unprecedented action of several secular and ecclesiastical princes of the Holy Roman Empire under the leadership of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne again
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…the minority of the six-year-old heir to the throne, Henry IV. He was the leader of the party which in April 1062 seized the person of Henry in the Coup of Kaiserswerth, and deprived his mother, Empress Agnes, of power. Agnes, initially with the support of Pope Victor II, had stirred up several German princes against…
Kidnapping of Henry IV by Archbishop Anno of Cologne, history painting by Anton von Werner (1868)
Emperor Henry Jumps from the Boat of his Kidnappers, acquaforte by Bernhard Rode (1781)
Emperor Henry IV, St. Emmeram's Abbey, 12th century