Pope Gregory VII canonized Ælfheah in 1078, with a feast day of 19 April.

* Pope Gregory VII ( c 1020 – 85, r. 1073 – 85 )

St. Gregory VII having, indeed, abridged the order of prayers, and having simplified the Liturgy as performed at the Roman Court, this abridgment received the name of Breviary, which was suitable, since, according to the etymology of the word, it was an abridgment.

Gregory VII ( pope 1073 – 1085 ), too, simplified the liturgy as performed at the Roman court, and gave his abridgment the name of Breviary, which thus came to denote a work which from another point of view might be called a Plenary, involving as it did the collection of several works into one.

The Concordat of Worms was a part of the larger reforms put forth by many popes, most notably Pope Gregory VII.

Pope Gregory VII began reforms that led to the Concordat of Worms.

The most vocal and strident was Pope Gregory VII.

This was known as the Gregorian Reform, which takes its name from Pope Gregory VII, ( 1073 – 85 ).

Gregory VII appeared to have succeeded when the emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor was humiliated at Canossa in 1077.

Henry IV begging forgiveness of Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, the castle of the Countess Matilda, 1077.

Gregory VII condemned lay investiture.

The rebellious nobles in Germany who were interested in deposing Henry IV never forgave Pope Gregory VII for what they viewed as treachery.

Henry IV became so filled with hubris over his position, that he renounced Gregory VII and named the bishop of Ravenna pope.

Gregory VII was meanwhile still resisting a few hundred yards away from the basilica in the Castel San Angelo, then known as the house of Cencius.

The last words he uttered were, ‘ I have loved justice and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile .” Gregory VII must have felt he died in utter failure, and to many of his contemporaries it appeared Henry IV and Antipope Clement III had won.

He was one of three men Gregory VII suggested as his successor.

Urban II preached the First Crusade, which united Western Europe, and more importantly, reconciled the majority of bishops who had abandoned Gregory VII.

The victory was as short-lived as that of his father, Henry IV over Gregory VII.

Of the three reforms Gregory VII and his predecessors and successor popes had attempted, they had been most successful in regard to celibacy of the clergy.

Nevertheless, Gregory VII ’ s dramatization of the issue produced a significant improvement in the character of men raised to the episcopacy.

This has caused some scholars to conclude that the settlement turned its back on Gregory VII and Urban II's genuine hopes for reform.

The struggle over investiture between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor had dramatized the clash between church and state.

cardinal during the papacy of Gregory VII.

Then, in the time of Pope Gregory VII ( 1073 – 1085 ), canonists who in the Investiture Controversy quoted the prohibition in canon 22 of the Council of Constantinople of 869 – 870 against laymen influencing the appointment of prelates elevated this council to the rank of ecumenical council.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Several years later, Henry IV died in a deep gloom as had Gregory.

The excommunication of Bardinus was reiterated in Canon 6 of the document produced by Lateran I. Gelasius II promptly excommunicated the antipope Gregory VIII and Henry V. Gelasius was forced to flee under duress from the army of Henry V, and took refuge in the monastery of Cluny, where he died in January of 1119.

When Meletius died shortly after the opening of the council, Gregory was selected to lead the Council.

Through Vrtanes, Gregory and Miriam would have further descendants and when Gregory died, Aristaces succeeded him.

Before any further steps could be taken at Rome, Gregory XI died ( 1378 ).

Both Matilda's mother and husband died in 1076, leaving her in sole control of her great Italian patrimony as well as lands in Lorraine, while at the same time matters in the conflict between Pope Gregory VII and the German king Henry IV were at a crisis point.

Gregory VII died in 1085, and Matilda's forces, with those of Prince Jordan I of Capua ( her off and on again enemy ), took to the field in support of a new pope, Victor III.

Among his sons, Giacomo ( died 1379 ) was created cardinal by Gregory XI in 1371, while Nicola ( August 27, 1331 – February 14, 1399 ) obtained the counties of Ariano and Celano.

Later, the attempt of Alessandro ( died February 9, 1604 ) to obtain the title of Monterotondo was thwarted by Pope Gregory XIII.

He annulled Pope Gregory X's bull on the holding of papal conclaves, but died before enacting new regulations.

Gregory died on 11 February 731, and was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

Pope Saint Gregory III ( died 28 November 741 ) was pope from 11 February 731 to 28 November 741.

Unsuccessful at stopping the Lombard advance, Gregory III died on 28 November 741, and was succeeded by Pope Zachary.

On January 25, 844, Gregory IV died, and was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

Gregory V died suddenly, not without suspicion of foul play, on 18 February 999.

Pope Gregory VI ( died 1048 ), born in Rome as John Gratian ( Latin Johannes Gratianus ), was Pope from 1 May 1045 until his abdication at the Council of Sutri on 20 December 1046.

Gregory VI himself was taken by the Emperor to Germany in May 1047, where he died in 1048, probably at Cologne.

Gregory died in Pisa on 17 December 1187 of a fever after holding the papacy for only 57 days.

Gregory, who was in poor health before his election to the papacy, died due to a large gallstone and was succeeded by Innocent IX.

Gregory XV died in the Quirinal Palace on 8 July 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant ' Ignazio.

Gregory XIII died on 10 April 1585.