How to use in-sentence of “investiture”:
+ The end of lay investiture meant an important loss of royal power, and a loss for ambitious noblemen, for the benefit of Church reform as the pope intended.
+ The “Investiture Controversy”, also known as the “lay investiture controversy”, was the most important conflict between secular and religious powers in medieval Europe.
+ His reign was marked by the Investiture Controversy with the Papacy and several civil wars with pretenders to his throne in Italy and Germany.
+ Thus, the Investiture Contest was part of the Church’s attempt to reform the episcopate and get better bishops.
+ Events such as the Investiture Controversy in medieval Europe led to people wanting “free” elections, with a medieval understanding of free.
+ The question who should invest in the Middle Ages during the so-called lay investiture controversy.
+ The Church wanted to end this lay investiture because of the vacant sees simony and other problems.
+ The first archbishop of the era was Gebhard of SalzburgGebhard, who during the Investiture Controversy remained on the side of the Pope.
