English: Henry IV, King of Germany and future Holy Roman Emperor, along with his wife and son awaited Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand) in great humiliation before the closed gates of Canossa in January 1077.In order to beg for forgiveness, he underwent a penance by standing barefoot with his wife Bertha of Savoy and son Conrad who also stood barefoot. Clerics and monks mocked the hosehold of the king from above, while Gregory was dallying with a woman. This woodcut appeared once in the first edition (1563), as a paste-in, but twice in the second (1570), third (1576), and fourth (1583) editions. Its second use in those editions formed the sixth illustration in the "Proud Primacy of Popes" woodcut series, which functions as an appendix to volume one of the work from the second edition onward.