Pope Paschal II
?–1118 CE · Bertinoro
Raniero, a monk from the Romagna and cardinal-priest, became Paschal II and reigned nearly two decades dominated by the investiture controversy. He continued the struggle against lay investiture and against successive antipopes backed by the empire. In 1111 he was seized by Emperor Henry V and, under duress, made sweeping concessions in the Treaty of Sutri — proposing the church renounce regalian lands — which a synod and outraged reformers swiftly repudiated. Paschal's long pontificate thus illustrates both the persistence and the limits of the reform papacy under imperial pressure, leaving the investiture question unresolved at his death in 1118.
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BertinoroברטינורוItaly
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Bertinoro, a town in the Romagna region of north-central Italy (province of Forlì-Cesena), was the birthplace, around 1445, of Rabbi Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, author of the standard commentary on the Mishnah that bears his name. He later emigrated to Jerusalem, where he became a leader of the community.
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