Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry V (1081–1125), last emperor of the Salian dynasty, was the younger son of Henry IV. Made co-king in 1099, he joined the reforming princes against his father and forced his abdication in 1105. At Rome in 1111 he imprisoned Pope Paschal II and wrung from him an imperial coronation and the right to invest bishops.

Renewed conflict ended only in 1122, when he and Pope Callixtus II concluded the Concordat of Worms, settling the Investiture Controversy. He died without legitimate heirs at Utrecht on 23 May 1125, and the princes elected Lothair in his place.