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Diet of Worms
Dies en route to the Diet of Worms to aid Charles III in settling his succession
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Worms in Italy. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Dies en route to the Diet of Worms to aid Charles III in settling his succession
Henry IV announces that Gregory is "not Pope but false monk"
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.
Both the Emperor & the Vatican will select the Pope. A truce is made between the Empire & the Pope.
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
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.
Innocent II drafts the Concordat of Worms.
The king could not invest bishops with sacred authority, symbolized by the ring and staff.
The king retained the right to invest bishops with secular authority, symbolized by the lance, in the territories they governed.
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 Pactum Calixtinum or Concordat of Worms. Both the Emperor and the Vatican will select the Pope. A truce is made between the Empire and the Pope.
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
The Concordat of Worms is confirmed by the First Council of the Lateran in 1123
Apppointed Pope
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
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
Provenance
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