Capitolo 59
dukedom, and that whole harmony of action was possible among them. Him
the friend has been called" of the "one of William, and while this perhaps improperly
you limit the number of the friends of the king, he was, in the greatest business
of his/her kingdom, his/her fixed supporter and wise adviser.
From the moment of his/her consecration, August 29 th 1070, the reform
of the Church firmly English followed, until it was as completely
brought defeasible as it was possible. The first question to be established perhaps was
the more main point of everybody, the question of unity of national organization.
The new archbishop of York refused the application of Lanfranc that he should take
the oath of the obedience to Canterbury, and it affirmed his/her independence and
you coordinate position, and it placed application to three bordering dioceses as
belonging to his/her metropolitan see,--Worcester, Lichfield and Dorchester.
The dispute had referred to the king that systematized a provisional compromise
in favour of Lanfranc, and then it brought the pope, from who was again
assigned again to be definite from a suggestion in England. This decision was
joint to a suggestion in Windsor to Whitsuntide in 1072, and it was in favour
of Lanfranc on all the points, although it seems some that victory was
gotten by a wide series of falsifications of what the archbishop
probably he was the author. [4] it has to be assistant, however, that the
moral judgment of that age didn't consider ours it makes such falsifications in
the interest of the Church of one. If the decision was understood to the duration
to intend of now from now on that all the archbishops of York should promise canonical
the obedience to the archbishop of Canterbury, didn't permanently assure
that result. But the true point in matter in this dispute, at least for the
being of time, was not any mere matter of line or precedence; it was as necessary
to the plans of Lanfranc and the Church that its authority should be
it recognized in the whole whole kingdom as it was to those of William. Neither
it was the question without the possible political meaning. The political one