Leveled Readings / Gregory VII: Lay Investitures Forbidden, 1074, 1080
Gregory VII: Lay Investitures Forbidden, 1074, 1080
Pope Gregory VII, decree against lay investiture (1078, renewed 1080)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“…we decree that no one of the clergy shall receive the investiture with a bishopric or abbey or church from the hand of an emperor or king or of any lay person, male or female.”
Adapted · about grade 4
No church leader may get his church job from a king or anyone who is not clergy.
Adapted · about grade 7
No member of the clergy may receive a bishopric, abbey, or church from an emperor, king, or any lay person.
Adapted · about grade 10
We decree that no cleric shall receive investiture of a bishopric, abbey, or church from the hand of an emperor, king, or any lay person, male or female.