Practice question · Numerical answer
In which year did the Concordat of Worms settle the investiture dispute by dividing spiritual from temporal investiture?
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- It is forty-five years after the penance at Canossa.
- Eleven twenty-two.
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1122
Why
1122. The gap between the dramatic scene and the settlement is the useful fact. Canossa is what gets remembered because it is a story with a picture in it; Worms is where the actual constitutional arrangement between rulers and the church was fixed, and it lasted.
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