HIST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jousting, Temporalities, Middle Ages
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After pope nicholas died there were two popes; the reformed alexander 2nd (1061-1073) and another, so-called anti-pope appointed by the regency government of henry iv. The higher clergy of germany decided to support the reformer pope. This was a blow to the prestige of german monarchy. Against the teachings og the reformers, he insisted on lay investiture as a corner-stone of his policy. The spiritual and the political were two intertwined, in his mind. In 1071, the normans seized the last byzantine port in south italy. A crisis broke out when a powerful, reformed cardinal became pope. Gregory vii (7th). (1073: r. (enemy of henry iv) Gregory vii issued another decree against lay investiture in 1075- an attack on theocratic monarchy itself. Around this time he drew up a document called the dictatus papae which reveals his con dent program to replace the emperor as the pope. It was based on the donation of constantine and contains such phrases as:
