| Common name of letter | Registrum IV, 2 | ||||||||||||
| Pages in Caspar's edition | from 293 to 297 (►dMGH) | ||||||||||||
| Number in JL | 5000 | ||||||||||||
| Type of document | (Normal) letter | ||||||||||||
| Abstract (from Caspar's edition) | Gregory VII answers Bishop Hermann of
Metz: that all who associate with King Henry IV are banned; that he as pope had the right to ban the king, because biblical and canonical authority clearly states that the power of the church is higher than that of the world; that all communion with the King automatically leads to deprivation of episcopal ordo. He also gives further instructions. | ||||||||||||
| Place of issue | Tivoli or Rome (Caspar prints "Rom", without any explanation. Maybe just a mistake.) | ||||||||||||
| Date of issue | 1076 August 25 | ||||||||||||
| Address lines | GREGORIUS episcopus servus servorum Dei Herimanno Mettensi episcopo salutem et apostolicam benedictionem | ||||||||||||
| Incipit | Multa interrogando a me valde occupato... | ||||||||||||
| Datum line | Data Tiburis VIII Kalendas Septembris Indictione XIIII | ||||||||||||
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