. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . these years—^that with Anselm. Anselm and Henry : The Question of Investitures We left Anselm after his unsuccessful attempt to per-suade the Pope to relieve him of his office.^ We have seenthat Pope Urban died in the July of 1099. He was followedon the chair of Peter by Paschal, who was elected Pope onAugust 13, 1099. It was this Pope who fought so strenuouslywith the Emperor Henry V over the question of investitureuntil he was at last captured by the Emperor in iiii, to bekept a prisoner until the Papacy abandoned for the timebeing the at
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . these years—^that with Anselm. Anselm and Henry : The Question of Investitures We left Anselm after his unsuccessful attempt to per-suade the Pope to relieve him of his office.^ We have seenthat Pope Urban died in the July of 1099. He was followedon the chair of Peter by Paschal, who was elected Pope onAugust 13, 1099. It was this Pope who fought so strenuouslywith the Emperor Henry V over the question of investitureuntil he was at last captured by the Emperor in iiii, to bekept a prisoner until the Papacy abandoned for the timebeing the attitude it had adopted. It is, therefore, notmatter for surprise that we find a stiffening in Anselmsattitude under the new Pope. On the other hand, Henry I Chron. Johannis de Oxenedes (Rolls Series), p. 42 : Rex Henricus Roberiumfrairem suum . . cepit, et incarceratum tandem luce oculorum privavit. Hecertainly blinded the Count of Mortain. See Henry of Huntingdon, Book blinding of Robert is generally discredited. * See ante, p. Plate XLII. Seai, of Anselm HENRY I was by no means the man to relinquish readily such valuableregalities as those struck at by the Papal See. The point in dispute, we remind the reader, was in essencethis : Was a bishop as bishop the vassal of the king or washe independent of the king, and was a bishop entitled asbishop to the temporalities of his see ? Bearing in mind theimmense poHtical importance of the higher Church dignitariesin those days, had the Papacy succeeded in this dispute itwould have been in a position to dictate to the world onmatters temporal as well as spiritual. Anselm from the first had adopted a pronounced pro-papalattitude. He regarded himself as absolutely bound by theedicts of the Councils of Clermont, Bari, and Rome, which hadformally forbidden clerics either to receive investiture at thehands of laymen or render homage or swear fealty to laymenfor their temporalities. Meanwhile Henry had established hisclaim
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