Canossa

Canossa, a town in northwest of Bologna, in the courtyard of the castle of which the Emperor Henry IV (1050—1106) stood three days in the cold, in January 1077, bareheaded and barefooted, waiting for Pope Gregory VII (c. 1015 – 1085) to remove from him the sentence of excommunication.

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Cant, Cantabri, Canterbury, Canterbury in New Zealand, Canterbury Tales