Death of Conrad II
June 4, 1039
The Salian emperor who had added Burgundy to the empire and restored imperial authority in Italy died at Utrecht. He was buried at Speyer Cathedral, which he had begun building on a scale that still stuns visitors today. His son Henry III succeeded him without dispute, inheriting a formidable position.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.