Gregory VII Biography

Pope Gregory VII is holed up in the Castel SantAngelo after Henry IV captures Rome

Pope Gregory VII is holed up in the Castel SantAngelo after Henry IV captures Rome

Excommunicates rulers who have made church appointments without papal authority. Enunciates 27 propositions claiming supreme legislative & judicial power. Claims the right to depose all princes, both temporal & spiritual

Appointed Pope, without Emperor Henry IV being notified, conflict is inevitable. Appointed Pope

Excommunicates rulers who have made church appointments without papal authority. Enunciates 27 propositions claiming supreme legislative & judicial power. Claims the right to depose all princes, both temporal & spiritual

Prohibits lay investiture of new Popes under penalty of excommunication

Abducted in order to be take prisoner to Germany but rescued by the people of Rome

Henry IV announces that Gregory is "not Pope but false monk"

Excommunicates Henry IV

Henry IV gains absolution from Pope Gregory VII after bowing to his authority

Gregory VII is liberated from the Holy City by Robert Guiscard & taken to Salerno

Death of Gregory VII, while an exile & the Pope Clement III occupies St Peters

Death of Gregory VII, while an exile & the Pope Clement III occupies St Peters