Henry took the pope and cardinals hostage until the pope granted Henry V the right of investiture.

In a ceremonial formula for consulting the Venetians, when a new doge was chosen, before he took the oath of investiture he was presented to the people with the formula: " This is your doge, if it please you.

He was appointed on April 6, 2006, and his investiture took place on February 9, 2007.

In 1010 the investiture of the Fieschi took place at Genoa: the family were created Counts of Lavagna and Imperial Vicars General ( i. e. Viceroys ) of the whole of Tuscany and of the coast of Genoa.

This custom has been discontinued, and the investiture now takes place with the scarlet biretta.

On the papal side, it was conceded that the bishops should receive investiture with the sceptre, that the episcopal elections should be held in the presence of the Emperor or his representatives, that in case of disputed elections the Emperor should, after the decision of the metropolitan and the suffragan bishops, confirm the rightfully elected candidate, and lastly, that the imperial investiture of the temporal properties connected to the sees should take place in Germany before the consecration.

In Burgundy and in Italy the imperial investiture would take place after the consecration ceremony, while in the Papal States the pope alone had the right of investiture, without any interference on the part of the Emperor.

The investiture of the Captains Regent takes place on April 1 and October 1 in every year.

Shechem was the place appointed, after Solomon's death, for the meeting of the people of Israel and the investiture of Roboam ; the meeting ended in the secession of the ten northern tribes, and Sichem, fortified by Jeroboam, became for a while the capital of the new kingdom ( 1 Kings 12: 1 ; 14: 17 ; 2 Chronicles 10: 1 ).

The overwhelmingly majority Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church has no ceremony of enthronement, although when a bishop is ordained in a church of the diocese he is to head, the principal consecrator invites him, after his investiture with mitre and crozier, to be seated on the cathedra of the church ; if the ordination takes place elsewhere, the principal consecrator invites him merely to take first place among the concelebrating bishops.

:" From me, such reward and investiture will be with money and bread compensation and with promotions: and you, as well as your next of kin will have a place in my government and will be designated to serve a glorious duty on my behalf.

Al-Idirisi ( 1100-1165 / 1166 ) testifies that until as late as the 12th century, a contract of investiture for every Hindu Shahi king was performed at Kabul and that here he was obliged to agree to certain ancient conditions which completed the contract.

Al-Idirisi testifies that until as late as the 12th century, a contract of investiture for every Shahi king was performed at Kabul and that here he was obliged to agree to certain ancient conditions which completed the contract.

The investiture issue was still contentious, but a compromise at Bec Abbey in 1107 was essentially identical to the Concordat of Worms.

On his return to France, he immediately convened an assembly of French and Burgundian bishops at Vienne, where the imperial claim to a traditional lay investiture of the clergy was denounced as heretical and a sentence of excommunication was now pronounced against Henry V on the grounds that he had extorted the Privilegium from Paschal II by means of violence.

An embassy of three cardinals was sent by Calixtus II to Germany, and negotiations for a permanent settlement of the investiture struggle were begun in October 1121 at Würzburg, where it was agreed that a general truce should be proclaimed in Germany, that the Church should have free use of its possessions, and that the lands of those in rebellion should be restored.

In August a council or synod of some importance was held at Benevento, which renewed the excommunication of the antipope Clement III and the condemnation of lay investiture, proclaimed a kind of crusade against the Saracens in northern Africa and anathematised Hugh of Lyons and Richard, Abbot of Marseilles.

* November 4 – Charles I ( 15 year-old second son of James I of England and Anne of Denmark ) is invested as Prince of Wales at Whitehall in London, the last such investiture until 1911.

* September 23 – at the death of William II, his adversary in the investiture controversy, Anselm, the exiled archbishop of Canterbury returns to England.

It is usually said that, at the synod which deposed Benedict V, Leo VIII conceded to the Emperor and his successors as sovereign of Italy full rights of investiture, but the genuineness of the document on which this allegation rests is more than doubtful.

Finally, in 1149, after crushing a last attempt at revolt, he handed over the duchy to his son Henry Curtmantle, who received the investiture at the hands of the king of France.

The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have deputised for the Queen at investiture ceremonies at Buckingham Palace.

In 1131 the two met at Liège, where the king demonstrated subservience to the pope, and his request that investiture be restored to him was ignored.

The imperial Diet at Mainz invited Paschal II to visit Germany and settle the trouble in January 1106, but the Pope in the Council of Guastalla ( October 1106 ) simply renewed the prohibition of investiture.

He was received with great enthusiasm at Avignon, Montpellier and other cities, held a synod at Vienne in January 1119, and was planning to hold a general council to settle the investiture contest when he died at Cluny.

In 1911, David Lloyd George, then Member of Parliament for Caernarfon boroughs, which included various towns from Llŷn to Conwy, agreed to the British Royal family's idea of holding the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle.

On 1 July 1969 the investiture ceremony for Charles, Prince of Wales was again held at Caernarfon Castle.

In 1651, Charles II was crowned at nearby Scone, traditional site of the investiture of Kings of Scots.

He can be spotted in photographs of the armistice delegates, and also standing behind Foch's shoulder at Pétain's investiture as Marshal of France at the end of 1918.

Morand was finally elected ten years later, and he was received without the customary visit, at the time of investiture, to the Élysée palace.

High relief at Taq-e Bostan of the investiture of Ardashir II, flanked by Mithra and Ahura MazdaArdashir II (), was the tenth Sassanid King of Persia from 379 to 383.

In spite of this, he went to Italy in 1132 in the train of the king, and his services there were rewarded in 1134 by the investiture of the Northern March, which was again without a ruler.

A compromise was reached in Worms in 1122, by which the emperor abandoned investiture “ by ring and staff ” to the pope, and promised to respect the freedom of elections and consecrations, but kept for himself the right to invest bishops with the temporalities of their sees “ by scepter ”.

As William of Champeaux assured Henry V, he had nothing to lose by surrendering the right of investiture.

The conflict between popes and secular autocratic rulers such as the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and Henry I of England, known as the question of investiture, was only resolved in 1122, by the Concordat of Worms, in which the pope decreed that clerics were to be invested by clerical leaders, and temporal rulers by lay investiture.

Lothair was keen to keep Honorius on his side, keeping to the terms of the Concordat of Worms by not attending episcopal elections, agreeing that the investiture should only occur after the bishop ’ s consecration, and that the oath of homage be replaced with an oath of fidelity.

They also elect, via a vote of investiture, the prime minister ( the " president of the Government "), before he or she can be formally sworn to office by the King.

However, he resumed the practice of lay investiture ( appointment of religious officials by civil authorities ) and arranged the election of an antipope ( Antipope Clement III ) in 1080.

As in Normandy, his bishops and abbots were bound to him by feudal obligations ; and his right of investiture in the Norman tradition prevailed within his kingdom, during the age of the Investiture Controversy that brought excommunication upon the Salian Emperor Henry IV.

* Rudravarman granted investiture by China as the first king of the fourth dynasty of Champa ( modern Vietnam ).

In a conflict surrounding the investiture of the abbot of Kladruby, the torture and murder of the archbishop's vicar-general John of Nepomuk by royal officials in 1393 sparked a noble rebellion.

The Pembroke lands and the title of Earl of Pembroke had been held by Henry's great-uncle, and Henry performed the investiture himself.

In the same year he brought to an end the investiture struggle in England, in which Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, had been engaged with Henry I of England, by retaining to himself exclusive right to invest with the ring and crozier, but recognizing the royal nomination to vacate benefices and the oath of fealty for temporal domains.

Henry V sought to enforce the privilege of investiture to the papacy conceded to the emperor by Paschal II, but then revoked.

This recrudescence of the investiture conflict was settled by the Concordat of 1801.

* Royal Family ( 1969 ) is a celebrated and reverential BBC documentary made by Richard Cawston to accompany the investiture of the current Prince of Wales.