Concordat of Worms
Bishops therefore owed worldly allegiance to both pope and king and had to affirm the sovereign's right to demand military support under their oath of fealty.
Role range: 1130-1143
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Innocent II Biography and Timeline
Follow Innocent II through 15 dated historical records for Italy.
Innocent II, historical timeline
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1122
Concordat of Worms
Innocent II drafts the Concordat of Worms.
Role range: 1130-1143
Concordat of Worms
The king could not invest bishops with sacred authority, symbolized by the ring and staff.
Role range: 1130-1143
Concordat of Worms
The king retained the right to invest bishops with secular authority, symbolized by the lance, in the territories they governed.
Role range: 1130-1143
1123
Lateran Council, 1st
The First Lateran Council was convoked to confirm the Concordat of Worms. The council was most representative with nearly three hundred bishops and six hundred abbots from every part of Catholic Europe being present. It convened on March 18, 1123. Decrees were also passed directed against simony, concubinage among the clergy, church robbers, and forgers of Church documents; the council also reaffirmed indulgences for Crusaders
Role range: 1130-1143
Reformation, The
The First Lateran Council was convoked to confirm the Concordat of Worms. The council was most representative with nearly three hundred bishops and six hundred abbots from every part of Catholic Europe being present. It convened on March 18, 1123. Decrees were also passed directed against simony, concubinage among the clergy, church robbers, and forgers of Church documents; the council also reaffirmed indulgences for Crusaders
Role range: 1130-1143
Lateran Council, 1st
The Concordat of Worms is confirmed by the First Council of the Lateran in 1123
Role range: 1130-1143
Lateran Council, 1st
The Council of 1123 is reckoned in the series of Ecumenical councils by the Catholic Church. It was convoked by Pope Calixtus II in December, 1122, immediately after the Concordat of Worms.
Role range: 1130-1143
Lateran Council, 1st
The Council sought to: (a) bring an end to the practice of the conferring of ecclesiastical benefices by people who were laymen; (b) free the election of bishops and abbots from secular influence; (c) clarify the separation of spiritual and temporal affairs; (d) re-establish the
Role range: 1130-1143
Lateran Council, 1st
principle that spiritual authority resides solely in the Church; (e) abolish the claim of the emperors to influence papal elections.
Role range: 1130-1143
Concordat of Worms
The Concordat of Worms is confirmed by the First Council of the Lateran in 1123
Role range: 1130-1143
1130
Pope
Appointed Pope, Gregorio Paparechsi dei Guidone
Role range: 1130-1143
1139
Lateran Council, 2nd
Many of the canons relating to these matters were mostly a restating of the decrees of the Council of Reims and the Council of Clermont
Role range: 1130-1143
Lateran Council, 2nd
The council also condemned the teachings of the Petrobrusians and the Henricians, the followers of Peter of Bruys and Henry of Lausanne. Finally, the council drew up measures for the amendment of ecclesiastical morals and discipline which the council fathers considered had grown lax.
Role range: 1130-1143
Lateran Council, 2nd
The immediate task was to neutralise the after-effects of the schism which had arisen after the death of Pope Honorius II in 1130 and the papal election in the same year that set up Petris Leonis as the antipope Anacletus II.
Role range: 1130-1143
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