Adrian IV's letter to Barbarossa
1159
Pope Adrian IV wrote a letter to Frederick Barbarossa using the Latin word beneficium, which could mean either favor or fief. The emperor's court took offense at the suggestion that the empire was a papal fief. The careless choice of word hastened the rupture that became the schism of 1159.
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