Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Canossa” in chapter 3 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10:
... of the clergy, asserted his exclusive right to the investiture of bishops throughout Christendom; and, compelling the emperor, Henry the Fourth, in his years of youth and weakness, to do penance at Canossa , extorted the acknowledgment of all the pretensions of the Roman see as lord over conscience and over kings.
A little more than a hundred years after this hasty submissiveness of an inexperience...
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† | Canossa (Italy) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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