The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages V.8
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256. 100 PASCHAL II. city of Tournai, was close to the boundary where met the spheres of influence of the French king and of the emperor, and was more disposed to attach itself to the latter than to the former. On the death of Balderic, bishop of Noyon and Tournai (in 3), both Noyon and Tournai put forward candidates of their own, and Paschal, favourable to a division of this large diocese, took steps to provide Tournai with a bishop of its own.^ But fearful lest the result of this would be tha...t he would thus lose control over part of the diocese of Noyon, Louis stoutly set his face against its subdivision. Ivo in consequence wrote a strong letter to the Pope, begging that an arrange- ment of four hundred years' duration might be allowed to stand, lest, though the kingdom of the Franks had ever been distinguished for its loyalty to the Apostolic See, Louis might cause a schism " in the kingdom of the Gauls" such as exists in the German Empire. He did not, he said, question the right of the Pope to arrange the territorial divisions of the Church, but he must consider the danger of schism, and of impoverishing the diocese of Noyon.- The project of the division of the diocese accordingly fell through for the time.^ The Pope's It is quite impossible here to enter into any further France ' detail to elucidate the intercourse between Paschal and the hirreia-"^^ rulers, spiritual and temporal, of France.
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