Council of Reims

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Five councils were held in Reims from the 9th to the 12th centuries :

  1. 813 : In that year, in which Emperor Charlemagne succeeded Louis the Pious , councils were held in Arles , Reims, Chalon-sur-Saône and Tours . Ludwig was crowned co-emperor on September 11th that year in Aachen .
  2. 1049 : Among other things, Pope Leo IX banned . during this council the marriage between William I, Duke of Normandy , later known as William the Conqueror , King William I of England, and Mathilde of Flanders , without the reasons for this being known to us.
  3. October 1119 : Pope Calixt II convened the council to receive support for the papal position towards Emperor Heinrich V in the investiture dispute . An excommunication was pronounced against the emperor, who fought back with preparations for an invasion of France, which in turn was a military response from King Louis VI. generated.
  4. October 1131 : Pope Innocent II , who had been expelled from Rome by antipope Anaclet II , sought support for his position. King Ludwig VI. took the opportunity to have his son Ludwig crowned co-king by the Pope.
  5. March 1148 : Pope Eugene III. convened the council to condemn Gilbert's dogmatic proposals of Poitiers to reform the Sainte-Geneviève Abbey in Paris and to resolve various political questions. The council was dominated by Bernhard von Clairvaux and Abbot Suger von Saint-Denis .