. The age of Hildebrand. il, 1099, at a councilin St. Peters, he renewed all his own and Gregorysdecrees, and ** enthroned, to use his own term, thevile Praxedis, who had ended her life in an Italiancloister, ordering that the day of her death and thatof her canonization should both be celebrated infuture. On the 29th of July he died at Rome, in thecastle of the Pierleoni, too soon to rejoice over thecapture of Jerusalem by the crusaders. He lives inhistory as the inspirer of the first crusade. He hadnot maintained the Papacy at the high level of theGregorian ideal. While fully committed to Gr
. The age of Hildebrand. il, 1099, at a councilin St. Peters, he renewed all his own and Gregorysdecrees, and ** enthroned, to use his own term, thevile Praxedis, who had ended her life in an Italiancloister, ordering that the day of her death and thatof her canonization should both be celebrated infuture. On the 29th of July he died at Rome, in thecastle of the Pierleoni, too soon to rejoice over thecapture of Jerusalem by the crusaders. He lives inhistory as the inspirer of the first crusade. He hadnot maintained the Papacy at the high level of theGregorian ideal. While fully committed to Greg-orys policy, he was a man of smaller mould thanHildebrand, more pliable, and more cautious. In hiseffort to maintain himself against Henry, some of hismeasures drew upon him the reproaches of the strongGregorians: and in dogmatic decisions, in which heoccasionally contradicted himself, he sometimes madeconcessions which menaced the integrity of the Gre-gorian system and arrayed against him the powerfulparty of CHAPTER XIII. PASCHAL II.—DEATH OF HENRY IV.—HENRY V.—THE INVESTITURE CONTEST. HE line of the history for the next twenty-three years is woven of many strands,but one thread runs continuously throughthe whole—the investiture contest. Thebeginning of this fight was the famousdecree of the synod of 1075, afterwards ratified byUrban in 1099. The Papacy remained in the hands of the Gregor-ians. Rainer, a monk of Clugny and Abbot of , was installed on the 14th of August,1099, as Paschal II. Clement did not hesitate torenew the struggle with him, but the struggle wasbrief. Paschals first act was to drive him, withthe aid of Count Roger, out of Albano, where hehad put himself under the protection of the Cam-pagna counts. He retired to Civita Castellana, andsuddenly died there in the autumn of 1100. As hisfollowers boasted of the numerous miracles wroughtat his tomb in Ravenna, Paschal caused his corpse tobe exhumed and thrown into the river. The
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