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Somewhere around the time that William the first was bursting out of his tomb like a

roasted chestnut

and William the second was making it rain with his dead dad's money?

Well something was turning in Western culture as a whole. You see down in Italy the

papacy were doing things that were, well, increasingly concerning.

You see, that same summer, Pope Victor III held a Synod in Benavinto, and much of this was pretty run-of-the-mill

papacy stuff for this period. The church was still mad about lay investiture, which was the whole basis of that entire

conflict with Emperor Henry. They were still really mad at Emperor Henry's

anti-Hope, Clement III. And on a more personal note, Pope Victor was absolutely livid with Hugh of Leon and

Abbott Richard because they hadn't supported his election to the papacy.

And Victor had a pretty typically medieval poply response

to these problems.

He condemned them, all of them.

Lay Investiture was condemned.

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