5.3 Investiture Controversy

Investiture Controversy
6.1: Pope against emperor

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Investiture Controversy
6.1: Pope against emperor

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Question 1:
Who is the Pope?

Slide 2 - Open question

Power in Late Middle Ages
People in the Middle Ages believed that all power was granted to kings and lords by God. 
Kings received secular power
Popes received spiritual power

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Conflict between the Pope and the king.
  • According to the popes the spiritual world was superior to the secular world. (Soul is more important than the body) .

  • In reality religious and state matters often became mixed. Led to conflicts between popes and lords.

  • 11th century major argument between the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and the pope Gregory VII: Investiture Controversy.

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people in this lesson
Gregory VII
pope
Rome
Henry IV
king, later emperor
Germany

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Slide 6 - Video

Who were the main characters in the Investiture Controversy?

Slide 7 - Open question

Why were they fighting?

Slide 8 - Open question

King
Pope
Spiritual power
Secular power
Rules over the Church and its followers
Rules over countries and people

Slide 9 - Drag question

Conflict between pope and kings
Investiture Controversy.
Investiture means the ability to appoint and install bishops. Fight between emperor and pope.

1122 Concordat of Worms.
Only pope could appoint bishops, but lords could give them political power.

Strict divide between between government of the Church and government of the empire.

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What is a crusade?
A
military expedition to free Jerusalem from Muslim rule
B
A Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem .
C
Military expedition to liberate Constantinople from Muslim rule
D
A Christian pilgrimage to Constantinople

Slide 11 - Quiz

Why did the pope call for a crusade?
A
To unite all Christians
B
To liberate Jerusalem
C
To become more powerfull
D
All three answers

Slide 12 - Quiz

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