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PASCHAL II . (Ranieri), See also:pope from the 13th of See also:August 1099 to the 21st of See also:January 1118, was a native of Bieda, near See also:Viterbo, and a See also:monk of the Cluniac See also:order. He was created See also:cardinal-See also:priest of S. Clemente by See also:Gregory VII. about 1o76, and was consecrated pope in See also:succession to See also:Urban II. on the 14th of August 1099. In the See also:long struggle with the emperors over See also:investiture, he zealously carried on the Hildebrandine policy, but with only partial success. In 1104 Paschal succeeded in instigating the See also:emperor's second son to See also:rebel against his See also:father, but soon found See also:Henry V. even more persistent in maintaining the right of investiture than Henry IV. had been. The imperial See also:Diet at See also:Mainz invited (See also:Jan. rro6) Paschal to visit See also:Germany and See also:settle the trouble, but the pope in the See also:Council of See also:Guastalla (Oct. r1o6) simply renewed the See also:prohibition of investiture. In the same See also:year he brought to an end the investiture struggle in See also:England, in which See also:Anselm, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, had been engaged with See also:King Henry I., by retaining himself exclusive right to invest with the See also:ring and See also:crozier, but recognizing the royal nomination to vacate benefices and See also:oath of fealty for temporal domains. He went to See also:France at the See also:close of 11o6 to seek the See also:mediation of King See also:Philip and See also:Prince See also:Louis in the imperial struggle, but, his negotiations remaining without result, he returned to See also:Italy in See also:September 1107. When Henry V. advanced with an See also:army into Italy in order to be crowned, the pope agreed to a compact (Feb. rrr1), by the terms of which the See also:Church should surrender all. the possessions and royalties it had received of the See also:empire and See also:kingdom of Italy since the days of See also:Charlemagne, while Henry on his See also:side should renounce See also:lay investiture. Preparations were made for the See also:coronation on the r 2th of See also:February 11 r 1, but the See also:Romans See also:rose in revolt against the compact, and Henry retired taking with him pope and See also:curia. After sixty-one days of harsh imprisonment, Paschal yielded and guaranteed investiture to the emperor.

Henry was then crowned in St See also:

Peter's on the 13th of See also:April, and after exacting a promise that no revenge would be taken for what had passed withdrew beyond the See also:Alps. The Hildebrandine party was aroused to See also:action, however; a Lateran council of See also:March 1112 declared null and void the concessions extorted by violence; a council held at See also:Vienna in See also:October actually excommunicated the emperor, and Paschal sanctioned the proceeding. Towards the end of the pontificate trouble began anew in England, Paschal complaining (1115) that See also:councils were held and bishops translated without his authorization, and threatening Henry I. with See also:excommunication. On the See also:death of the countess See also:Matilda, who had bequeathed all her territories to the Church (1115), the emperor at once laid claim to them as imperial fiefs and forced the pope to flee from See also:Rome. Paschal returned after the emperor's withdrawal at the beginning of 1118, but died within a few days on the 21st of January 1118. His successor was See also:Gelasius II. The See also:principal See also:sources for the See also:life of Paschal II. are his Letters in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Epistolae, vols. 3, 6, 7, 13, 17, 20-23, 25, and the Vita by Petrus Pisanus in the See also:Liber pontificalis, ed. See also:Duchesne (See also:Paris, 1892). Important bulls are in J. A.

G. von Pflugk-Harttung, See also:

Die Bullen der Papste bis zum Ende See also:des zwolften Jahrhunderts (See also:Gotha, 19o1), and a valuable See also:digest in Jaffe-See also:Wattenbach, Regesta pontif. See also:roman. (1885-1888). See J. See also:Langen, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis Innocenz III. (See also:Bonn, 1893) ; K. J. von See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, vol. v. (2nd ed., 1873–1890) ; E. See also:Franz, Papst Paschalis II. (See also:Breslau,1877) ; W. Schum, Die Politik Papst Paschals II. gegen Kaiser Heinrich V. See also:im Jahre 1112 (See also:Erfurt, 1877); I. Roskens, Heinrich V. and Paschalis II. (See also:Essen, 1885) ; C.

Gernandt, Die erste Romfahrt Heinrich V. (See also:

Heidelberg, 189o) ; G. Peiser, Der deutsche Investiturstreit unter Kaiser Heinrich V. bis zu dem papstlichen Privileg vom 3 April 1111 (See also:Berlin, 1883); and B. See also:Monod, Essai sur See also:les rapports de See also:Pascal II. avec Philippe I. (Paris, 1907). There is an exhaustive bibliography with an excellent See also:article by Carl Mirbt in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (3rd ed., 1904). (C. H.

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