. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. THE POPES. 263 first crusade (1095), preached by him throughout France, was decidedupon; he afterwards returned in triumph to Rome (1096), happy in thethought that he had realised the wishes of Gregory, who first conceived theidea of the Holy War. The Council of Rome, at which the sovereiga right of the Church toconfer the investiture of ecclesiastical dignities was proclaimed, marked theclose of his reign. He died in 1099, upon the eve of that century of strifeand confusion over which his spirit and that of
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. THE POPES. 263 first crusade (1095), preached by him throughout France, was decidedupon; he afterwards returned in triumph to Rome (1096), happy in thethought that he had realised the wishes of Gregory, who first conceived theidea of the Holy War. The Council of Rome, at which the sovereiga right of the Church toconfer the investiture of ecclesiastical dignities was proclaimed, marked theclose of his reign. He died in 1099, upon the eve of that century of strifeand confusion over which his spirit and that of Gregory VII., as well as ofseveral other popes and learned doctors who had come from Cluny, weredestined, as it were, to hover, for the investiture quarrel was far frombeing settled. Pascal II. imitated the firmness of his predecessors, and theKing of France gave way; but the Emperor Henry V., in spite of theformal engagements entered into by his father, revived his claim toappoint the bishops and the abbots, and to induct them into their entering Rome with his troops
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