WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tickets. Since the beginning of the Christian Church, popes, emperors, and kings have clashed over whether the Roman Church should operate independently from secular rule-or even operate at all. Several Roman emperors attempted to get rid of the Church altogether. Constantine wanted to control the Church.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. The Investiture Controversy, also referred to as the Investiture Contest or Investiture Dispute, was a conflict lasting from 1076 to 1122 between the papacy of the Catholic Church and the Salian Dynasty of German monarchs who ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -The history of the papacy from 1046 to 1216 was marked by conflict between popes and the Holy Roman Emperor, most prominently the Investiture Controversy, a dispute over who-pope or emperor-could appoint bishops within the Empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -The conflict between Henry IV and Gregory VII concerned the question of who got to appoint local church officials. Henry believed that, as king, he had the right to appoint the bishops of the German church. This was known as lay investiture.