A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ull view of the pope sitting in the Gastle ofSt. Angelo and of his noble adherents, who still held some strongpoints in the city. A synod confirmed the deposition of Gregory,pronounced him excommunicated, and acknowledged Guibert aspontiff. On March 24 he was consecrated by the title of Clement Easter Day, March ol, Clement placed the imperial diadem of theWest on the heads of Henry and liis wife, with precisely the sameceremonial that was observed on the coronation of his great Robert Gui
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ull view of the pope sitting in the Gastle ofSt. Angelo and of his noble adherents, who still held some strongpoints in the city. A synod confirmed the deposition of Gregory,pronounced him excommunicated, and acknowledged Guibert aspontiff. On March 24 he was consecrated by the title of Clement Easter Day, March ol, Clement placed the imperial diadem of theWest on the heads of Henry and liis wife, with precisely the sameceremonial that was observed on the coronation of his great Robert Guiscard, with 30,000 Normans, was in full marchRomeward. With such a force the emperor could not cope. Giv-ing orders that the Romans were to continue the siege of St. Angelo,Henry himself, on May 21, drew off northward, leaving, however, apart of his Italian troops with Clement in Tivoli. On May 26 Robert Guiscard stood before Rome. On the 27thpartisans within the walls opened two gates to him. Ere the Romanswere well aware of what was being done, the city was in the hands m PLAT E 1 f^\ r-^ DEATH OF GREGORV VIT. 49 of the terrible Northman (Plate I.), who, first conducting theliberated pope to the Lateran, proceeded to repeat the scenes ofhorror then usually enacted on a place taken by storm. The mem-ory of the Vandal terror was revived to tlie llcimans. Never hadthey been repaid by the church with baser ingratitude. In their bit-terness of heart they saw with joy tliese merciless Normans investTivoli in vain. Fallowed by their maledictions, Gregory, who darednot remain among the excited masses, took his way, among his robber-protectors, southward to Apulia, whereupon the Romans opened theirgates to Clement 111. In the eyes of the world this was a greatvictory for the imperial cause and a severe defeat for the Gregory feel it as such ? Of this his demeanor gave no indi-cation. He maintained his extreme position with unfaltering reso-lution, and, from his resid
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