Once Bran was seated, Jack told him what he knew about Canossa.

After listening, Bran fell into a long test, and after about half a moment, "It seems that in a few years, Frank and the Holy See will have another conflict, and then the entire peninsula will be involved in war, and your Teutonic mercenary group will step up training." ”

"Your Highness, do you know the origin of this matter?"

Jack was only a mercenary captain and didn't know much about the seriousness, so Bran began to explain.

"The Last French Emperor" Bronon Aine Capet: "Have you heard?"

"Naturally, he was one of the commanders of the Second Crusade, having killed two Abbasid princes and six heretics, and was the god of war."

Carol also participated in the Second Crusade, and he said that Bilongan was a combination of genius, strength, charisma, bravery, and gregariousness.

And my grandfather said that he was the Great.

He used marriages, forced proclamations, and conspiracies to slander his rivals as heretics to expand his territory and take back the diocese under his jurisdiction and put it under the direct jurisdiction of his cronies or family members.

Issued a peace decree that vassals were not allowed to go to war without permission, and limited the powers of the noble cabinet, arbitrarily withdrawing the titles below the earl, and concentrating great power, although he was the emperor, he was also a tyrant in the eyes of the nobles.

Because of his military prestige, it was difficult for the Holy See to curry favor militarily, so that the diocesan bishops in Frankish were less and less appointed by the Holy See. ”

Jack was fascinated by this, "Heroes are jealous, but unfortunately they only lived to be thirty-six years old." ”

After the death of Biron Aham, Luio II, taking advantage of the prestige of recovering the Holy Land, first promoted the Frankish archbishop to cardinal, and then encouraged the archbishop to revolt with the other nobles who had been victimized by the Biron Ann reforms.

On the first day of the new year in 1303, A.E. 1303, Luio II promulgated the "Law on the Election of Clergy", stipulating that feudal lords did not have the right to appoint bishops.

The Imperial royalists were dissatisfied, but the Holy See took the first step to use force, drove the Knights Templar to the Frankish border, and when the Emperor went to the "Notre-Dame Cathedral" to celebrate the "Mass of the Lord", the archbishop fled eastward with the little Emperor, and then left Paris all the way to the castle bordering the Knights Templar.

The incident of "coercing the emperor to order the princes" triggered the flames of war.

In the face of the accusations, the papal edict was issued, stating that the Church is not subject to trial, that the Pope has the right to depose the emperor, and that all monarchs should kiss the Pope's feet......

The royalist aristocratic alliance has undergone the reform of Bilongan, and if they want to force the eight dukes of the empire, five of them are against the church, as long as someone leads them.

But no one wanted to deal with the Holy See directly, and the Dukes began to secretly contact the Holy See, and finally formed a six-to-two situation.

The little emperor relented and signed the "Law on the Appointment of Bishops", giving up all violations of the rights of the Holy See since Pilongan, and regained his freedom.

Remembering this humiliation, Heyderian married the eldest daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, the strongest duke in the empire and the head of the eight dukes, under the operation of matriarchal forces, to consolidate the throne.

Inheriting his father's valor, Heyderian attached great importance to armaments, and also defeated foreign invasions twice, creating a new emperor's prestige, until last year, because the original partner had not been able to give birth to an heir, and the old Duke of Aquitaine had no children (all of them died young).

Therefore, the dukedom of Aquitaine, which implemented the "male inheritance law", the title fell into the hands of the divided family, and Hederian no longer needed this wife who was not good and had no real title to support.

Heyderian took advantage of the "Kingdom of Bavaria" whose power spanned Central and Eastern Europe, and wanted to marry the eldest daughter of the Viper King Celeomew.

Between Bavaria and the Franks is the "Kingdom of Swabia".

During the Dark Ages, Swabia and Bavaria were one country, and then separated.

Swabian and Frankish had long been hostile, and this military alliance could solve the military threat from Swabian to the east of Franks.

However, the divorce of the aristocracy requires the consent of the church, and the inability to have children cannot be used as a reason for divorce.

The Holy See did not approve of the marriage, and used the local church in Bavaria to accuse the eldest daughter's dead mother of not being a Illuminati and having a record of worshipping heresy.

Coupled with the Frankish tradition, the emperor has long been married to important domestic ministers, and the resistance to this marriage is unprecedentedly huge!

The "papal edict" was again brought to the table to warn Heyderian.

Heyderian threatens the archbishop to perform the ceremony of skipping the wedding for him.

But the archbishop did not obey, this time, he was young and vigorous, he did not give face, during the court service, he directly arrested the archbishop and a group of court priests, avenged the hatred of childhood, and the next day sent troops from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to sweep all the parishes, monasteries, churches, castles, etc. close to the Holy See.

There are comings and goings.

Upon learning of this, Luio II immediately issued a "Breaking Order" to expel Heydrian.

"A secular monarch who is not led by God is no longer qualified to reign over the earth...... Those who receive this order should raise their arms against tyranny. ”

Heyderian was named "possessed by Satan" by the Pope!

Empire chaos.

The situation of the previous generation, it was the grandfather who told himself about the contemporary situation, the collection of the manor in recent years.

At this time, the region of "Provence", far from the city of Meat, on the southern border of the Frankish Empire, under the leadership of the then Duke Rudolf, issued a second letter to the emperor, requesting that the amount of wheat to be paid this year be reduced.

After the killing of an imperial tax collector, the letter was delivered to Emperor Heydrian, along with the head.

After reading it, the emperor scolded the nobles, "Last time I agreed to give them autonomy, this time I have to make inches."

"Speculators, despicable bloodlines, without credibility or glory, worthy of the Viking race!"

Hundreds of years ago, the Vikings came to Provence to grab it

Some remained in the region and were baptized and converted, becoming nouveau riche and marrying local nobles (forced marriages), forming a culture that was different from that of the rest of the Franks.

In A.E. 1066, William, a nobleman of Viking descent and Normandy (northern France), sent troops to England and reigned on the English throne - known as "William the Conqueror".

Due to cultural proximity.

England has intermarried with Provence and Normandy, and in the past two hundred years, there have been two kings of England and four queens of England, with Provençal blood.

Provence and the empire were divided and merged, and whenever the empire changed in strength and weakness, the successive dukes would always cause trouble.

"Your Majesty, let's respond to him first this time, we lost the battle with the Holy See, and now there are no troops available."

"Yes, after our proposal for an alliance with Bavaria was politely rejected, the Swabians, taking advantage of our country's new weakness, sent another army to the border to harvest our wheat and take away our cattle and sheep."

The ministers didn't want to fight, and Heyderian straightened up and lowered again.

He called out to the governors and ministers, and he fell asleep on the throne alone, and he dreamed of the scene of that day.....

After being breached, the emperor softened his imperial posture and braved the cold to go to the Canossa region.

And he took with him his wife, and accompanied by a handful of guards, servants, and priests, forty men in all.

Disputes between nobles were often mediated by a reputable mediator, in this case by Archduke Herty Day Jam of Austria.

Archduke Hetty had a good relationship with the clergy and was fond of showmanship, and he admired the dragon slayer Shange for arbitrating the affairs of the nations, so he followed suit.

The price for the emperor to ask him to come forward was a list of gifts written on three large pieces of parchment.

After a long and difficult trek, the Emperor came to Canossa Castle on the top of the hill with a tired face.

Taking off his fur hat and boots, he dressed in the humble garb of an ascetic, and wore only a felt blanket, a "form of confession" that the emperor came up with, barefoot and barefoot in the harsh winter.