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.
In context
Also in 1159 (4 other events on record)
- Al-Idrisi's Tabula Rogeriana completed · Africa · Science
- John of Salisbury publishes Policraticus · Europe · Culture
- Kilij Arslan II reunifies the Sultanate of Rum · Middle East · Politics
- Double papal election · Europe · Religion
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Religion
Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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