Note 161 — Chapter IV · ENTERPRISES OF THE POPES OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY
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Concilior. vol. 10. p. 366. Here is, according to Otho of Freisingen, the first example of the deposition of a king by a pope. Lego et relego Roma norum regum et imperatorum gestu, èt nusquam invenio quemquam eorum ante hune à Romano pontifice excommunicatum vel regno privatum. Otho. Fies. Chron. 1. 6, c. 35.— Quanta autem mala, quotbella, bellorumque discriminia, inde subsecuta sunt? Quoties misere Eoma obscessa, capta rastata? Ibid. c. 36.