Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Wurzburg in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Following efforts by Lamberto Scannabecchi (later Pope Honorius II) and the Diet of Wurzburg (1121) in 1122, Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V entered into an agreement that effectively ended the Investiture Controversy.
This record states: By the terms of the agreement, the election of bishops and abbots in Germany was to take place in the emperor's presence as judge between potentially disputing parties, free of bribes.
This record states: thus retaining to the emperor a crucial role in choosing these great territorial magnates of the Empire.
Marries Beatrix, daughter of the late Count of Upper Burgundy
Persuades the Diet to recognize his 2 year old son Frederick as King of the Romans
Representatives of all the important Catholic states, except for Austria and Salzburg, and a great number of the smaller ones, meet decide the organisation, funding and arming of the League
Manteuffel enters Wurzburg as hostilities on the Main front come to an end.
Birth of Gottfried Feder
Provenance
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