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Invasion of Germany
Conrad helps the Magyars across the Rhine in rebellion against Otto I
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Worms in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Conrad helps the Magyars across the Rhine in rebellion against Otto I
Henry IV announces that Gregory is "not Pope but false monk"
Henry IV announces that Gregory is "not Pope but false monk"
Both the Vatican & the Emperor have a say in the selection of a Pope
Both the Vatican & the Emperor have a say in the selection of a Pope. Agrees the Concordat with Calixtus II.
The King was recognised as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority ("by the lance") in the territories they governed but not with sacred authority ("by ring and staff")
the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support
under his oath of fealty
Convenes the Diet of Worms after Frederick III's death.
Luther appears at the Diet before Charles V to to answer charges of heresy
On refusing to recant Luther is declared a heretic and is excommunicated by Pope Leo X
The Papal nuncio at the Diet, Girolamo Aleandro, draws up and proposes the fierce denunciations of Luther embodied in the edict, which permitted anyone to kill Luther without legal consequence
On refusing to recant Luther is declared a heretic and is excommunicated by Pope Leo X
The Papal nuncio at the Diet, Girolamo Aleandro, draws up and proposes the fierce denunciations of Luther embodied in the edict, which permitted anyone to kill Luther without legal consequence
Luther appears at the Diet before Charles V to to answer charges of heresy
On refusing to recant Luther is declared a heretic and is excommunicated by Pope Leo X
Summoned to appear at the Diet of Worms
Tried before the Emperor at the Diet of Worms & put under the ban of the Empire
The German Princes come out in Luthers favour. Rejects the belief that bread & wine can become the body & blood of Christ. Charles V opens a Diet to discuss what to do with Luther. Challenges the papal claim to be the sole authority on the scriptures
Charles issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw, banning his writings, and requiring his arrest: "We want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic"
Pope Leo X wishes for Martin Luther to recant 41 of these theses, which Luther famously refused to do before the Diet of Worms in 1521, thus symbolically initiating the Protestant reformation
In refuge because of his denunciation by the Diet of Worms
The Edict of Worms is temporarily suspended at the Diet of Speyer in 1526 but then reinstated in 1529
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