Observations on the Dead Emperor Collected from Annals and Laws

it was no wonder that burial was denied to certain Caesars. See ch. 12 X. de sepult., Clement. de sepult., BÖHMER in Jus Ecclesiasticum Ecclesiastical Law, Title de sepult., § 29 sq. These things are certainly far removed from the Capitularies of LOUIS in the year 867, Chap. XV in Baluze, Vol. II, p. 368: If the royal power has received any of the guilty into the grace of kindness, or has made them participants of his table, the gathering of the priesthood and the people must also receive them into ecclesiastical communion, so that what the principal piety has received, may not be considered foreign by the priests of God. Who is ignorant of the fate of Henry IV? Who, according to GODFREY OF VITERBO, Chronicle, p. 17, was buried in the royal manner at Liège, [but] by the mandate of the Roman Pontiff was thrown out of the cemetery, with all Christian burial denied; the body, however, was carried to Speyer on a bier and was kept in the chapel of Saint Afra without burial for the space of five years. The Annals of Hildesheim at the year 1106 show: that this was done by the council of the princes of the empire: The King, however, immediately summoned the princes of the kingdom to himself and asked them for advice on what he was to do about the funeral of his father. — Then the princes of the kingdom gave him the advice that he should order him to be dug up, lest he be in the same sentence as his father, if he were to perform any funeral rites for him; and that he should place him in an unconsecrated building and send messengers to Rome and obtain for himself, if it could be done, the absolution of the ban from the Apostolic see—when he was brought there (to Speyer), he was received honorably by the clergy and the people with the funeral rites customary for the dead and was carried into the basilica of Saint Mary, which he had constructed with the greatest effort. Therefore, the bishop forbade any divine service to be celebrated there until they were purged of this deed. And thus he caused the body to be placed outside the monastery in a chapel not yet consecrated. From the narration of AEGIDIUS, a monk of the Golden Valley, in the deeds of the Pontiffs of Liège, ch. XV, p. 46 in Chappeauville, Vol. II, of the writers of Liège, this Emperor was buried three times: *The Emperor was buried in the church of Saint Lambert before the altar of the blessed Mary, but because he had...