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The Truce of God

CHAPTER X
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But, outnumbered and confused, the defenders were driven into the citadel, and Henry, with his queen at his side, entered in triumph.

The next day Guibert of Ravenna was installed in the Lateran palace in the See of St.Peter, and consecrated on the twenty-fourth of March, by the bishops of Modena and Arezzo.

His first act was to crown King Henry in the Vatican.

Gregory retired to the castle of San Angelo, and the giddy populace greeted the anti-pope with shouts of joy.

A severe chastisement awaited their perfidy and inconstancy.


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