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Documents Relating to the War of the Investitures
(Doeberl: " Monumenta Germaniae selecta," pp. 16-48.)
  • 1075 - Letter of Gregory VII to Henry IV; December

  • 1076 - Henry IV's Answer to Gregory VII; January 24

  • 1076 - Letter of the Bishops to Gregory VII; January 24

  • 1076 - First Deposition and Banning of Henry IV By Gregory VII; February 22

  • 1076 - Summons of Henry IV to the Council of Worms - Royal Justification

  • 1076 - Gregory VII's Justification of himself to the Germans; April or May

  • 1076 - Convention of Oppenheim; October

  • 1077 - Gregory VII's letter to the German Princes concerning the Penance of Henry IV at Canossa; January 28

  • 1078 - Decree Forbidding Lay Investiture; November 19

  • 1080 - Decree Forbidding Lay Investiture; March 7

  • 1080 - Second Banning and Dethronement of Henry IV Through Gregory VII; March 7

  • 1080 - Decision of the Synod of Brixen; June 25

  • 1081 - Letter of Gregory VII to Bishop Hermann of Metz; March 15

  • 1111 - Negotiations between Paschal II and Henry V

  • 1122 - Concordat of Worms; September 23

  • The Dictate of the Pope

  • Source:
    Henderson, Ernest F.
    Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages
    London : George Bell and Sons, 1896.

    127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511.