Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV again
March 7, 1080
Three years after Canossa, the quarrel reopened when the pope declared Henry deposed a second time and recognized Rudolf of Swabia as the true German king. This time German princes largely ignored the papal sentence. Henry was determined to march on Rome itself and end the humiliation forever. Rudolf's death in battle at the Elster later that year removed the papal candidate entirely.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.