Uta-Renate Blumenthal
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Professor of History, The Catholic University of America. Author of The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century and The Early Councils of Pope Paschal II.
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St. Gregory VII ; canonized 1606; feast day, May 25) was one of the greatest popes of the medieval church, who lent his name to the 11th-century movement now known as the Gregorian Reform or Investiture Controversy. Gregory VII was the first pope to depose a crowned ruler, Emperor Henry IV…
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