First Council of Lyon deposes Frederick II
1245
Pope Innocent IV, in exile from Italy, convened a council that declared the Hohenstaufen emperor deposed for tyranny, heresy, and perjury. Frederick laughed and kept ruling. The breach between empire and papacy widened into an abyss that would outlive both men. The council's sweeping claims of papal supremacy over temporal rulers pushed the theoretical reach of the medieval papacy to its absolute limit.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.