Final History Paper 5/30/2012 The Lay Investiture Conflict In the mid-11th Century, the was the Lay Investiture Conflict, which was a struggle between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV over who had authority to name and invest the bishops of the kingdom. The Pope believed that the naming and investing of bishops, lay investiture, should be a church matter, while King Henry believes in the traditional social order which is that the lords and kings have the right to appoint bishops in the lands…
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