The Concordat of Worms was an agreement between Pope Callixtus II and the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V that ended the Investiture Controversy, a long conflict over who had the right to appoint bishops and abbots. The dispute had begun in the eleventh century under Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV, and it had caused civil war in Germany. Under the compromise, the emperor gave up the right to invest bishops with the ring and the staff, symbols of spiritual authority, and allowed canonical election, but he kept the right to be present at the elections and to grant the bishops their temporal lands with a sceptre. The agreement was confirmed by the First Lateran Council in 1123.
Before and after
- from 1118 to 1791Construction of Abbey of Fontenay
- from May 1118 to December 1118Conquest of Zaragoza
- from c. 1120s to 1390sRise of Guelphs and Ghibellines
- from 1121 to 1269Almohads
- 23 September 1122Concordat of Worms
- December 1122Birth of Frederick Barbarossa
- from 1125 to 1389Grand Principality of Vladimir
- 11 June 1125Battle of Azaz
- from 1126 to 1485House of Plantagenet
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