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Callistus II
(d. 1124), Pope from 1119. He was a strong opponent of lay investiture; during his pontificate the Investiture Controversy was settled by the Concordat of Worms (1122). At the Lateran Council of 1123 ...
Charles V
(1500–58)Holy Roman Emperor (1519–56) and (as Charles I) King of Spain (1516–56). The son of Philip I (the Handsome) and Joanna of Spain, and grandson of Emperor Maximilian I, Charles came to the ...
Diets of Speyer
1 The Diet of 1526 consolidated reforming influences in Germany. It decreed that each Prince should order ecclesiastical affairs in his own State in accordance with his conscience.2 The Diet of 1529 ...
Frederick III
(1463–1525) Imperial elector who founded the University of Wittenberg and protected Martin Luther.Frederick, who served as Reichsvikar in 1519 between the death of Maximilian I and the election of ...
Georg Spalatin
(1484–1545),German humanist and reformer, born on 14 January 1484 at Spalt (near Nuremberg), the son of a tanner; his name was Georg Burkhardt, but he later derived his adoptive ...
Girolamo Aleandro
(1480–1542),Italian Hellenist and papal diplomat, born in Treviso and educated in Padua and Venice. His interest in Greek developed in Venice, where he moved in the circle of Aldus ...
Heinrich V, Kaiser
(1081–1125, Utrecht),son of the Emperor Heinrich IV, was elected Deutscher König in 1098. In 1104 he revolted against his father, whose abdication he compelled. Heinrich V resumed the struggle ...
Henry IV
(1050–1106), German King and Emperor. He succeeded to the throne in 1056. His reign was troubled by rebellious Saxon princes and by the reforms of Gregory VII (q.v.). Having conquered the Saxons in ...
Investiture Controversy
(dispute about the right of laity to make certain Church appointments): see GREGORY VII.
Justus Jonas
(also Jodocus or Jobst Koch; 1493–1555), German humanist and co-worker and friend of Martin Luther.Born Jodocus Koch in Nordhausen, an imperial city northwest of Erfurt, Jonas adopted the Christian ...
Lateran Councils
A series of councils held at the Lateran Palace in Rome from the 7th to the 18th cent.; five of them rank as oecumenical in the W. Church. The First (1123) ratified the Concordat of Worms ending the ...
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
(1483–1565), Lutheran theologian. He joined M. Luther in 1517 and accompanied him to the Disputation of Leipzig (1519) and the Diet of Worms (1521). In 1524 he went to Magdeburg to lead the ...
Philipp Melanchthon
(1497–1560)German Protestant reformer. In 1521 he succeeded Luther as leader of the Reformation movement in Germany. Professor of Greek at Wittenberg, he helped to systematize Martin Luther's ...
St Otto
(1062/3–1139), the ‘Apostle of Pomerania’. He was nominated Bp. of Bamberg in 1102 and consecrated in 1106. He tried to maintain a neutral attitude in the Investiture Controversy, though his ...
Wartburg
The castle in Thuringia where M. Luther was hidden after being seized (with his own connivance) on his way home from the Diet of Worms in 1521.
Worms, Concordat of (1122) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
Agreement between Holy Roman Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II settling the investiture conflict, a struggle between the Empire
Worms, Concordat of (1122) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Compromise agreement between Henry V and other German princes representing the empire, and *cardinal *legates sent by *Pope Calixtus II
Wormser Konkordat, Das Reference library
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
an agreement between the Emperor Heinrich V and Pope Calixtus II which brought to an end by a compromise the
