HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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Emperor Henry IV supported replacing Gregory VII with Clement III as pope in the late eleventh century.What reason best explains why Henry wanted to see the pope replaced?
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Gregory introduced reforms that would decrease Henry’s imperial powers.
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Clement controlled military forces that could protect Henry’s empire.
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Gregory sided with rulers who were at war with Henry.
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Clement offered to provide Henry with money he needed to pay debts.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He devises a plan. Dressed in a penitential robe, Henry makes a pilgrimage through the Alps, sometimes crawling on hand and foot, before finally reaching Canossa Castle. Henry knows that if he succeeds in meeting the pope in person, the custom dictates that Gregory must forgive his arch enemy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Roman Catholic church over the power to appoint bishops and other church officials as defined in the papal document Dictatus papae. This issue came to a head with the personal conflict between Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII.
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