Legal settlement of Worms

The legal settlement of Worms is the agreement which suspended the Querelle of the Nominations in 1122 and thus marking the separation of the temporal power and the spiritual power.

The emperor of the Roman Holy roman Empire Henri V and the Pope Calixte II agreed on the following elements: the bishops would be elected by their canons, but the emperor would have the right to exert a discrete influence on the election while assisting there. The bishop, once elected, would receive the spiritual nomination of the Pope in the shape of the stick and the ring, and the temporal nomination of the emperor in the shape of a sceptre. In fact, this legal settlement did not satisfy any of the two parts and was not enough to erase the tensions between them; several emperors were thus excommunicated thereafter.

The original of the act of the emperor Henri V is preserved today at the files of the the Vatican.

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