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 Popes and Emperors 45 son, whom he had had crowned as his successor, to revolt Death of against his father. Thereupon followed more civil war, more ^^^^ treason, and a miserable abdication. In 1106 death put an end to perhaps the saddest reign that history records. The achievement of the reign of Henry IV 's son, Henry V, which chiefly interests us was the adjustment of the question of investitures. Pope Paschal II, while willing to recognize those bishops already chosen by the king, provided they were good Henry V, 1106-1125 Fig. 168. Medieval Pictures of Gregory VII These pictures are taken from an illustrated manuscript written some decades after Gregory's death. In the one on the left Gregory is rep- resented blowing out a candle and saying to his cardinals, "As I blow out this light, so will Henry IV be extinguished." In the one on the right is shown the death of Gregory {1085). ^e did not wear his crown in bed, but the artist wanted us to be sure to recognize that he was Pope men, proposed that thereafter Gregory's decrees against inves- titure by laymen should be carried out. The clergy should no longer do homage by laying their hands, consecrated to the service of the altar, in the bloodstained hands of the nobles. Henry V, on the other hand, declared that unless the clergy took the oath of fealty the bishops would not be given the lands, towns, casdes, tolls, and privileges attached to the bishoprics. After a succession of troubles a compromise was at last reached in the Concordat of Worms (1122), which put an end