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THE HISTORICAL PAST OF ITALY.
tected Innocent II., for Conrad to declare in favour of
Anacletus. But the parties were too equally balanced in
Rome to permit of a decisive battle on either side; and
after much angry contentions and skirmishing, Anacletus
kept his position on the right bank of the Tiber, and Inno-
cent took his abode in the Lateran, where he conferred the
golden crown of empire on Lothair, June 4, 1133.1 During
this time the insurrectionary party in the southern pro-
vinces, favoured by Rome and by Lothair, had made
several open attempts at revolt against the hard-handed
oppressors, but had been always put down by the Normans.
When the presence of the Emperor in the Abruzzi, under
colour of supporting Pope Innocent II. revived all
hopes, several cities, between the river Pescara and
Bari, submitted to him as the commander of the Papal
forces (for, in his “treaty” with Innocent, no allusion
had ever been made to the former grant of investiture
made by Lothair, giving him a pretended supremacy in
the South of Italy). Robert of Capua was now restored to
his paternal inheritance, and Naples was freed from the
Normans, and garrisoned by three thousand Germans.
Roger, checked for the moment, took refuge in Sicily,
but a quarrel speedily arose between the Emperor and
the Pope, for the Suzerainty of Apulia (the province the
allied forces next proceeded to invade). Lothair in-
sisted on interpreting, in his own favour, the diploma of
investiture granted to Drogone (as may be remembered)
by Henry III. And the Pope answered by showing
upwards of a century’s unquestioned homage to the
Church, as a title significant above every other, being
backed by actual fact. As neither party would yield, the
solution of the difficulty was adjourned; and it was
agreed that, for the moment, the province should be
governed in the joint names of the “ Pope and the
1 This is the text of Lothair’s oath. “ Ego L. rex promitto et juro
tibi D. papas Inn. tuisqne successoribus securitatem vitas et in
membris et malas captionis ; et defenders papatum et honorem tuum ;
et regalia Sancti Petri quae habes manutenere et quae non habes
juxta meum posse recuperare. Annal. Ecclesias. T. xviii., p. 188.
THE HISTORICAL PAST OF ITALY.
tected Innocent II., for Conrad to declare in favour of
Anacletus. But the parties were too equally balanced in
Rome to permit of a decisive battle on either side; and
after much angry contentions and skirmishing, Anacletus
kept his position on the right bank of the Tiber, and Inno-
cent took his abode in the Lateran, where he conferred the
golden crown of empire on Lothair, June 4, 1133.1 During
this time the insurrectionary party in the southern pro-
vinces, favoured by Rome and by Lothair, had made
several open attempts at revolt against the hard-handed
oppressors, but had been always put down by the Normans.
When the presence of the Emperor in the Abruzzi, under
colour of supporting Pope Innocent II. revived all
hopes, several cities, between the river Pescara and
Bari, submitted to him as the commander of the Papal
forces (for, in his “treaty” with Innocent, no allusion
had ever been made to the former grant of investiture
made by Lothair, giving him a pretended supremacy in
the South of Italy). Robert of Capua was now restored to
his paternal inheritance, and Naples was freed from the
Normans, and garrisoned by three thousand Germans.
Roger, checked for the moment, took refuge in Sicily,
but a quarrel speedily arose between the Emperor and
the Pope, for the Suzerainty of Apulia (the province the
allied forces next proceeded to invade). Lothair in-
sisted on interpreting, in his own favour, the diploma of
investiture granted to Drogone (as may be remembered)
by Henry III. And the Pope answered by showing
upwards of a century’s unquestioned homage to the
Church, as a title significant above every other, being
backed by actual fact. As neither party would yield, the
solution of the difficulty was adjourned; and it was
agreed that, for the moment, the province should be
governed in the joint names of the “ Pope and the
1 This is the text of Lothair’s oath. “ Ego L. rex promitto et juro
tibi D. papas Inn. tuisqne successoribus securitatem vitas et in
membris et malas captionis ; et defenders papatum et honorem tuum ;
et regalia Sancti Petri quae habes manutenere et quae non habes
juxta meum posse recuperare. Annal. Ecclesias. T. xviii., p. 188.