"Be sure to really convey my advice to you! Not long ago, the unfaithful, lascivious, greedy, violent, anti-Christian sinner Henry IV had died in terror and rebuke, and his son (i.e., Henry V) was about to come here to whip and lead my horse, and ask for my coronation, and reconcile with the Pope. Pen and Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info such a mirror-like lesson that my child Gawain will perceive - that the 'City of the Lord' will always be here, and even if it may be destroyed by the sword, the spirit and authority are eternal and no one can resist. The Pope held his scepter in his hand and recounted it word by word, as if to imprint it on the heads of the crowd.

Now, of course, it was the glorious victory of the Pope of Rome: Henry IV was disillusioned after the defection of his own son, and the whole of Salian was about to bend his knees to the Pope again - all the subsequent bishops of the region, and the property of the various churches and monasteries, would return to the jurisdiction of the city of Rome; The previous crusade initiated by Urban not only completely recovered the Holy City, but also gave birth to some Eastern Catholic kingdoms that obeyed the Roman city, such as Antioch, such as Jerusalem, and Tarsus (its situation is somewhat complicated).

Therefore, Eugene began to warn Gawain gently: "In general, you are still good, but the Dervishes of the Church of the Church of the Church of Dervishes you have been a little out of my control recently, and in addition, the construction of dioceses in your territory is not very on track, and you have not set up ecumenical bishops in major cities, let alone ask me for the gift of scepters and rings, and only one Patriarch Anselm is operating there miserably, which is a big problem!

In addition, Pope Eugene also made it clear that he also demanded that Bohemond stop the attack on the city of Antioch and negotiate peacefully with his nephew.

After sending off Gawain's emissary, the time had come to the "first day of fasting" in September, and in the palace with the towering Lateran bell tower, in front of the altar covered with "jaipo", the pope convened his "priesthood" according to customary rules to discuss the matter of this holy war.

The Pope's "Priesthood Order" is commonly known as the "Council of Cardinals", which was originally called the presbyterium, or "elders". Of course, the group that can participate in this conference is not ordinary people, they are all high-ranking clergy who belong to the rank of "priesthood", and Gawain was previously canonized, more of an honorary title than a real power, and thus was exempt from the canonical rules, at least this group of cardinals must strictly abide by the doctrine of celibacy and non-marriage (except for concubines).

Theoretically, the "Council of Cardinals" consists of three levels, namely the cardinals, the parish priests and the cardinals.

There are generally only seven cardinals, namely the seven dioceses of Rome, the seven dioceses of Ostia, Porto, Albano, Jufera, Sabina, Frascati and Parestirina;

The parish bowl comes from the twenty-eight (twenty-five in the early days) of the most important Roman ecumenical churches, and only these churches have the name "titulus", that is, "have a special status";

As for the cardinals, in addition to the seven "parish deacons" who were responsible for the relief of the poor in the city of Rome, there were also eleven "palace deacons" who served in the Papal Palace.

Thus, the Council of Cardinals is composed of seven cardinals, twenty-eight parish priests and eighteen cardinal deacons, and the Pope himself is fifty-four, and almost all the major affairs of the Ecumenical Church are decided by them.

However, there were two more people in this meeting, Simon and Roger the Younger (later Roger II, Lord of Sicily) from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Both brothers were princes, born of old Roger (Bohemond's uncle), who was already in poor health, but the three of them, who were the "papal emissaries" personally designated by the city of Rome, were therefore fully qualified to sit at the Lateran Palace.

The identity and power of this "papal envoy" are not known to be higher than Gawain's "Rank Sage".

Here's why: In the fifties of the last century, the Ecumenical Church of Rome broke with Constantinople (the two sides made a "reciprocal" excommunication) and then opposed the Emperor of Germany (the Emperor of the Holy Continent). The Norman aristocracy, led by Guiscut, soon swore allegiance to the Pope, became "vassal vassals" of the city of Rome, paid the vassal tax every year, and swore to protect the safety, order, and freedom of the Pope; On the other hand, the Norman nobility was given "fiefdoms" of Capra, Aversa, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily, in other words, the legal right to rule in the region, which was granted by the Pope.

Yes, you read that right, the papal fiefdom was not confined to the city of Rome, but all these parts of southern Italy were within its claim - Pope Gregory VII (r. 1073-1085) declared that southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Poland, Hungary and Aragon were "the natural fiefdoms of St. Peter", as well as Britain, Denmark, Kiev, Novgorod (the local Rus' Orthodox Church said it had been shot) and Dalmatia 。

So where does the legal authority of Pope Peter come from in these territories? This question will be immediately left to Gawain to clarify and solve, and we will return to the level of the "papal envoy" of the Prince of Sicily.

In fact, at that time, the Pope just gave the Normans a blank promise: "The south of Italy is my fiefdom, and as long as you can take it and defeat the Greeks and Saracens, you will naturally become the worldly masters of these regions." But the power of the flag is also very great, for example, the old Roger passed twenty or thirty years of conquest, and simply captured the whole of Sicily, and became the "Count of Sicily". Then Roger expelled the Church from Constantinople in Palermo and other places, and welcomed the Ecumenical Church to exercise judicial power here, and the happy city of Rome declared that he and his legitimate successor had the status of "papal emissary" - they could freely appoint local bishops, and they could participate in the Council of Cardinals in Rome, and their power was enormous, comparable to that of the patriarch - and the prosperity and power of Roger's family in Sicily was of course inseparable from the patronage of the Pope, and they could also have the dual power of king and patriarch, For example, Roger Sr. did not participate in the Crusade at all, and did a lot of business with the Crescentists in North Africa, but no one dared to impeach him, or it was useless to impeach him if he was dissatisfied.

The two Sicilian princes, now dressed in court robes made of Palermo silk and adorned with Saracen-style gold ornaments, conveyed this extremely important advice to the Pope and to the cardinals and bowls:

"Gawain, Bohemond, and Baldwin are in such a powerful position in the East that the command of this holy war must not be given to any of them."