A History of the Church From the Earliest Ages to the Reformation volume 2
A History of the Church From the Earliest Ages to the Reformation volume 2
George Waddington
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XX. That the Roman empire has been transferred by the Holy See, from the Greeks to the Germans in the person of Charlemagne; that the right to elect a king of the Romans, destined to be emperor, has been accorded by the holy see to certain princes ecclesiastical and secular ; and that the kings and emperors receive from the holy see the power of the sword. " He con- cluded that act of subservience by an unconditional promise of military aid, if it should be required by the Pope. His sin- cerity... was never ]mt to trial, and when we consider for how long a period, and with what general success, the dependence of the empire had been asserted by the Popes, and recollect the pe- culiar foundation on which that claim rested, we shall scarcely wonder at its unequivocal acknowledgment by Albert. From these facts, we may at least observe the assiduity with which Boniface pressed his temporal pretensions in every quarter of Europe. We shall now proceed to the princijjal theatre of his exertions, and watch the accumulation of the tempest which followed them.
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