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Pope Paschal II ( la, Paschalis II; 1050  1055 – 21 January 1118), born Ranierius, was head of the
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and ruler of the
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from 13 August 1099 to his death in 1118. A monk of the
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, he was created the
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of
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(1073–85) in 1073. He was consecrated as pope in
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to
Pope Urban II Pope Urban II ( la, Urbanus II;  – 29 July 1099), otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death. He is best known for convening th ...
(1088–99) on 19 August 1099. His reign of almost twenty years was exceptionally long for a medieval pope.


Early career

Ranierius was born in
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, near
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,
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. He became a monk at Cluny at an early age.


Papacy

During the long struggle of the papacy with the
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s over
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, Paschal II zealously carried on the Hildebrandine policy in favor of papal privilege, but with only partial success.
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, son of
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, took advantage of his father's
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to rebel, even to the point of seeking out Paschal II for absolution for associating with his father. But, Henry V was even more persistent in maintaining the right of investiture than Emperor Henry IV had been before his death in 1106. The imperial
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at
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invited Paschal II to visit Germany and settle the trouble in January 1106, but the pope in the Council of
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(October 1106) simply renewed the prohibition of investiture. In the same year he brought to an end the investiture struggle in
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, in which Anselm,
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, had been engaged with
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, by retaining to himself exclusive right to invest with the ring and crozier, but recognizing the royal nomination to vacate
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s and the oath of fealty for temporal domains. Paschal went to
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at the close of 1106 to seek the mediation of
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and his son Louis in the imperial struggle, but he returned to Italy in September 1107, his negotiations remaining without result. When Henry V advanced with an army into Italy in order to be crowned, the pope agreed to a compact in February 1111 which stipulated that before receiving the imperial crown, Henry was to abjure all claims to investitures, whilst the pope undertook to compel the prelates and abbots of the empire to restore all the temporal rights and privileges which they held from the crown. Preparations were made for the coronation on 12 February 1111, but the Romans rose in revolt against Henry, and the German king retired, taking the pope and Curia with him. After 61 days of harsh imprisonment, during which Prince Robert I of Capua's Norman army was repulsed on its rescue mission, Paschal II yielded and guaranteed investiture to the emperor. Henry V was then crowned in St. Peter's on 13 April 1111, and, after exacting a promise that no revenge would be taken for what had happened, withdrew beyond the
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. The Hildebrandine party was aroused to action, however; a
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council of March 1112 declared null and void the concessions extorted by violence; a council held at Vienne in October 1111 excommunicated the emperor; and Paschal II sanctioned the proceeding. Pope Paschal II ordered the building of the basilica of
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on the ashes of the one burned during the Norman sack of Rome in 1084. During Paschal's trip to France in 1106–1107, he consecrated the Cluniac church of Notre Dame at La Charité-sur-Loire, the second largest church in Europe at the time. Towards the end of his pontificate trouble began anew in England; Paschal II complained in 1115 that councils were held and bishops translated without his authorization, and he threatened Henry I with
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.
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was said to have bequeathed all her allodial lands to the Church upon her death in 1115, but the donation was neither publicly acknowledged in Rome nor is any documentary record of the donation preserved. Emperor Henry V at once laid claim to Matilda's lands as imperial fiefs and forced the pope to flee from Rome. Paschal II returned after the emperor's withdrawal at the beginning of 1118, but died within a few days, on 21 January 1118. In 1116, Paschal II, at the behest of Count Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona, issued a crusade for the capture of
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. During Paschal's papacy some efforts were made by the
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Emperor
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to bridge the
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between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church, but these failed, as Paschal pressed the demand that the
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recognise the pope's primacy over "all the churches of God throughout the world" in late 1112. This was something the patriarch could not do in face of opposition from the majority of clergy, the monastic world, and the laity. Pope Paschal II issued the bull '' Pie postulatio voluntatis'' on 15 February 1113. It brought under Papal protection and confirmed as a religious order the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, later known as the Knights Hospitaller and today known as the
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. It also confirmed the order's acquisitions and donations in Europe and Asia and exempted it from all authority save that of the pope.


See also

* First Council of the Lateran *
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* Cardinals created by Paschal II


Notes

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