Investiture Controversy, called Investiture Contest, was a conflict between the church and the state in medieval Europe over the ability to choose and install bishops and abbots of monasteries and the pope himself.
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10 Facts About Investiture controversy
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Investiture controversy then attacked Rome and besieged the city with the intent of forcibly removing Gregory VII and installing Clement III.
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Investiture controversy owed his elevation to the influence of the Normans.
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Investiture controversy was one of three men Gregory VII suggested as his successor.
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Investiture controversy had no choice but to give up investiture and the old right of naming the pope.
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Investiture controversy had designated his nephew, Frederick von Staufen duke of Swabia, known as Frederick II, Duke of Swabia as his successor.
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Investiture controversy often rewarded these men with the titles of bishop and abbot.
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Similarly, in Italy, the investiture controversy weakened the emperor's authority and strengthened local separatists.
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Investiture controversy would raise more tax revenue, but it would not be enough to get out from under the pope's thumb which was just too strong.
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Investiture controversy further argues that this dynamic is what enabled the Protestant Reformation, which mostly happened in northern Europe.
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