The Concordat of Worms (In Our Time)
1122 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Concordat of Worms. This treaty between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, signed in 1122, put an end, at least for a time, to years of power struggle and bloodshed. The wrangling between the German kings and the Church over who had the ultimate authority to elect bishops, use the ceremonial symbols of office in his
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Around 1122
- First Crusade (1096)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Crusades (1095)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- First Crusade preached at Clermont (1095)
- Frederick I Barbarossa (1122)