henry iv wanted to use lay vesture which was appointing someone as a bishop of abbot the pope didnt like this so he treatne to excommunicate him and eventaully did they basicaly faught over power.
Henry IV was born at Bolingbroke in 1367 to John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster. He married Mary Bohun in 1380, who bore him seven children before her death in 1394. In 1402, Henry remarried,...
The cause were that Henry didn't want the pope to have all the power, so he said to the pope that the king should have the power to appoint bishops. And Henry told pope to step down the papacy. But...