End of Feudalism

 

Kings VS Popes

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King and Pope
In the Middle Ages, the pope was the head of the Christian Church in Western Europe. Since nearly everyone in the Middle Ages belonged to this church, the pope had great power. From time to time, a pope would write a letter called a bull to explain a religious teaching or outline a church policy. If the pope felt someone was working against the church, he could punish the person in many ways. In addition to spiritual power, some pope have great political power.The pope became rich and started to build huge palace. Europe in 1000 was divided into many small states. Most of these states were ruled by kings, some of whom had little real power. In a few places, though, kings had begun to take firm control of their countries.In the Holy Roman Empire, however, the situation was different.This empire grew out of what had been Charlemagne’s empire.Holy Roman emperors didn’t inherit their crowns. Instead, they were elected by the empire’s nobles. Sometimes, these elections led to fights between nobles and the emperor.

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King increase power
As the popes work to increased the power, they often came to a conflict with king. In 1073 a new pope came to power in Rome. His name was pope Gregory VII trouble arose when Gregory disapproved of a bishop chosen by the Holy Rome Emperor Henry IV.