Follow Gregory VII through 13 dated historical records for Italy.
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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
Role range: 1073-1085
Appointed Pope, without Emperor Henry IV being notified, conflict is inevitable. Appointed Pope
Role range: 1073-1085
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
Role range: 1073-1085
Pope Gregory VII is holed up in the Castel SantAngelo after Henry IV captures Rome
Role range: 1073-1085
Pope Gregory VII is holed up in the Castel SantAngelo after Henry IV captures Rome
Role range: 1073-1085
Abducted in order to be take prisoner to Germany but rescued by the people of Rome
Role range: 1073-1085
Prohibits lay investiture of new Popes under penalty of excommunication
Role range: 1073-1085
Excommunicates Henry IV
Role range: 1073-1085
Henry IV announces that Gregory is "not Pope but false monk"
Role range: 1073-1085
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
Role range: 1073-1085
Death of Gregory VII, while an exile & the Pope Clement III occupies St Peters
Role range: 1073-1085
Death of Gregory VII, while an exile & the Pope Clement III occupies St Peters
Role range: 1073-1085
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