Walk to Canossa
An emperor waits three days in the snow for papal pardon
Excommunicated Emperor Henry IV stood for three days at the gates of Canossa castle in January 1077, begging Pope Gregory VII to lift the ban. The episode became a symbol of the struggle between Church and crown.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1054 East–West Schism — 23 years earlier
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — 22 years later
Africa
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — 7 years earlier
Asia
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — 23 years earlier
Alive at the time
- William the Conqueror (aged 49)
- Omar Khayyam (aged 29)
- Henry IV (aged 27)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 24)
- Iziaslav I (aged 53)
- Vsevolod I (aged 47)
- Shen Kuo (aged 46)
- Sviatopolk II (aged 27)
- Philip I (aged 25)
- Nestor the Chronicler (aged 21)