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How to use lay investiture in a sentence

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Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs.
Ultimately, the issues of ecclesiastical homage and lay investiture forced Anselm into a second exile.
He also points to them often in the context of simony and occasionally in connection with lay investiture.
The council prohibited simony and lay investiture, declaring that no priest or cleric could accept a church from a layman.
At the Roman synod of 1075, Gregory signaled his determination to bring an end to the practice of lay investiture.
He did indeed go into exile rather than abandon his observance of the papal decree of 1099 condemning the lay investiture of clergy with churches and ecclesiastical offices.
Indeed, the struggle over lay investiture lent legitimacy to movements directed against imperial bishops.
There, amid an outcry to address Anselm's situation, Urban renewed bans on lay investiture and on clerics doing homage.
Hugh's duty was to preside at councils in Northern France, particularly concerning issues of clerical marriage, simony, and lay investiture.
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