. The age of Hildebrand. f raisingtroops, all castles and courts. The church shouldhenceforth live by its tithes. The King, on his part,should surrender the right of investiture. The Kingwas to guarantee to the Roman see all its possessions,the patrimony of St. Peter as granted by Pepin,Charlemagne, and Louis, and to the Pope personalsecurity by oath and hostages. A second documentwas prepared in which it was promised that when theKing should have fulfilled the pledges given, thePope, on the day of the coronation, would commandthe German prelates to restore the imperial proper-ties, would forb
. The age of Hildebrand. f raisingtroops, all castles and courts. The church shouldhenceforth live by its tithes. The King, on his part,should surrender the right of investiture. The Kingwas to guarantee to the Roman see all its possessions,the patrimony of St. Peter as granted by Pepin,Charlemagne, and Louis, and to the Pope personalsecurity by oath and hostages. A second documentwas prepared in which it was promised that when theKing should have fulfilled the pledges given, thePope, on the day of the coronation, would commandthe German prelates to restore the imperial proper-ties, would forbid his successor to revoke this decree 148 Age of Hildebrand. under penalty of anathema, and would crown theKing and support him with his authority in the main-tenance of his empire. All the great princes of theempire were to guarantee the treaty by oath. Henry agreed, under the proviso that he held him-self bound only in case the German prelates, inobedience to the Popes command, should surrenderthe imperial CHAPTER XIV. THE CORONATION RIOT—PASCHALS BROKENOATH—DEATH OF MATHILDE—GELASIUS II.—CALIXTUS II. JN the 12th of February, iiii, Henry his entry into Rome. Havingsworn before the gate of St. Peter toprotect the privileges of the Pope and of the Roman Church, the solemnities of the imperial coronation began. On arriving at thechurch, the Pope demanded of the King the renunci-ation of the right of investiture. The King repliedwith a formal declaration that he did not intend totake the church properties given by former emperors,but demanded that the Pope should now fulfil hispromise of the renunciation by the clergy of imperialproperty. The Pope had already drawn up an edictto this effect, which he submitted. Henry then de-manded the renunciation by the German bishopsaccording to the proposed agreement. They decid-edly refused. Henry saw in the proceeding only adevice of the Pope to get possession of his renuncia-tion, and then leave him to encounte
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