Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 331
ch himself to appear in person before a synod, to renderaccount of what he had done. Henry IV., victorious over the Saxons, and 260 THE POPES. irritated at the popes audacity, convoked a diet at Worms for the purpose ofdeposing him, and dismissed the legates whom he had sent. During this timea… … Fig. 210.—Portrait of the great Countess Matilda.—From a Miniature in a contemporary poem ofwhich she was the heroine (Manuscript No. 4,922 in the Vatican Lihrary). Gregory, wounded in the forehead while he was celebrating mass in thebasilica of St. Peter, was carried prisoner from the altar into…
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