Easing of the Investiture Controversy

Name: Easing of the Investiture Controversy
Start: 1120
End: 1127

Type Event Region Holy Roman Empire Time 1120–1127

In the 1120s the century-long Investiture Controversy wound down: the Concordat of Worms (1122) and the First Lateran Council (1123) settled the disp…

Timeline

1120–1122Worms · Holy Roman EmpireHenry V and Pope Calixtus II resumed negotiations after years of excommunication and confrontation. Their representatives repeatedly negotiated at Worms and elsewhere over the division of authority between episcopal elections and the emperor's ring and crosier investiture, finally signing the concordat on September 23, 1122.
1123–1127Rome · Papal StatesThe First Lateran Council of 1123 confirmed the spirit of the Concordat of Worms and reaffirmed the principle of church election of bishops. Over the following years, episcopal appointments across Germany and Italy were gradually completed under the new procedures, and the Investiture Controversy was largely settled at the institutional level.

Sources

Investiture Controversy https://www.britannica.com/event/Investiture-Controversy
Investiture Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_Controversy