Henry has given Bavaria to one Cuno (Conrad) and, at Ulm in January 1048, Swabia to Otto of Schweinfurt, called the White, after a brief vacancy following the death of Otto II.

Henry meets Henry of France, probably at Ivois again, in October and at Christmas, envoys from Rome come to seek a new pope, Damasus having died.

Henry's most enduring papal selection is Bruno of Toul, who takes office as Leo IX, and under whom the Church will be divided between East and West.

Henry's final appointment of this long spate is a successor to Adalbert in Lorraine.

For this, he appoints the young Gerard of Chatenoy, a relative of Adalbert and Henry himself.