Abstract
Still nowadays, the German emperor Henry V remains the victim of some ill-treatment among historians, owing to the castigation he once had to endure from his enemies of the Gregorian party. However, a peculiar event nearly brought him salvation during the XIIth and the XIIIth centuries. An impostor impersonated the late monarch around 1138, meeting no real success, and being finally secluded in the monastery of Cluny. From the episode nevertheless originated a strong and persistent rumour about a pious survival of Henry V, which was at first used as an exemplum connected to a similar legend concerning the Anglo-Saxon Harold, but was eventually rejected by chroniclers as a mere fiction.
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