The IIe council of Lateran , held from April 4th to 11th 1139 under the presidency of Innocent II, is regarded as the oecumenical tenth Concile by the Roman Catholic church.

Context

The council draws its origins from the Schisme to death, in 1130, of the pope Honorius II: the cardinals are then divided on the statute to give to the Concordat of Worms, which puts an end in 1122 to the Querelle of the Nominations. Are added to it the competition between two Roman clans, Frangipani and Pierleoni. February 14th, 1130, sixteen cardinals in favor of the first elect Gregorio Papareschi, which takes the name of Innocent II. A few hours later, Pietro Pierleone is elected by other cardinals; it takes the name of Anaclet II. Thanks to the support of Bernard de Clairvaux, Innocent II prevails finally, helped considerably by the death of its rival in 1138.

The council

The purpose of the council convened in Lateran is initially to repair the tears create by the schism: Innocent II opens the meeting by deploring the disorder caused by Anaclet in the Church, and deposits the schismatic bishops. Then, it is a question of continuing and of completing the work of the I {{er}} council of Lateran (1129). In the same spirit, Innocent II wishes to give a greater solemnity to the decrees of the synods than it held itself before: with Clermont (1130), Rheims (1131) and Pisa (1135).

The council adopts thirty guns, which are located in the line line of the Gregorian Réforme:

• the bishops and the priests must preserve a modest setting and proscribe ostentation (gun 4).

• the marriage of the priests and the monks is declared invalid and either only illicit (guns 6,7 and 11).
• the Usure is condemned.
• It is interdict with the monks to devote itself to profane studies, like the right or medicine.
• the tournaments are prohibited under penalty of deprivation of Christian burial (gun 14).
• It returns in the cathédraux chapters and higher of the religious orders to elect the bishops (gun 28).
• the use of the arc and the crossbow is proscribed against the Christians (gun 29).
• Arnaud de Brescia is condemned for Hérésie.