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
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
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
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 against Empress Agnes, ruling on behalf of her under-age son, King Henry IV, and against her chosen sub-regent, Bishop Henry II of Augsburg…
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