The Investiture Controversy

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1. The Investiture Controversy involved debate over whether the secular authorities (emperors) or papal authorities (the Church) held the power to appoint individuals to a particular position. What was this particular position? Heads of banks Prime Ministers Abbots Bishops

2. What two figures were at the center of the controversy? King John of England and Pope Innocent III Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII Saint Peter and Emperor Nero Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and Pope John XXII

3. In what year did the pope excommunicate the secular authority? 323 BC 1076 AD 1095 AD 1215 AD

4. When the pope announced the excommunication did the nobility support their secular ruler? Yes No

5. The year after the excommunication, the emperor travelled to the pope's winter residence to make amends. In what city was this home? Florence Canossa Venice Avignon

6. When the emperor offered himself so humbly to the pope, did the pope forgive him? Yes No

7. When Henry IV returned home, he found that the nobility had raised up a rival king in his stead. What was the name of this rival? Clement III Benedict X Rudolf von Rheinfeld Honorius II

8. When the emperor reneged on his plea for forgiveness and turned on the pope again, what northern European people did the pope call to his rescue? The Normans The Ptolemies The Slavs The Visigoths

9. The Investiture Controversy continued for many generations. The Concordat of Worms eventually decided that Kings held the right to appoint the Bishops of their territory, but the authority to do so remained unofficial. In what year was this decision made? 1122 AD 1204 AD 49 BC 1348 AD

10. The struggle between the popes and the emperors is a distant historical mirror of a modern day struggle between what powers? America and Iraq Red Sox and Yankees Pro Lifers and Pro Choicers Church and State